Re: Permission denyed to just some filesystems
2005-12-25 18:07:29
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:04:30PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I set up amanda to backup some of my workstations. Now I encountered some
> strange issue: On one workstation amanda can backup /home but not /. The
> permissions in /dev are the same. The user amanda is in the disk group.
>
What backup program are you using. For tar the device permissions should
not matter. For dump they do.
Are the entries in /dev symlinks to some other file, the actual device?
On some OSs they are. Does "ls -lL" (both lower and upper 'ell') of the
devices give the same results as "ls -l"?
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