Paul Bijnens wrote:

Leonid Shulov wrote:

Now /var/log/amanda:
drwx--S---  2 backup backup    1024 2006-01-23 12:50 amanda/

It is still confusing what you write:  Is that the contents of
/var/log/amanda or the directory itself?
I.e is there a directory /var/log/amanda/amanda that has those
permissions? or is it /var/log/amanda itself?

but:
astp0002:/var/log# sudo -u backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied

Or do you have SElinux enabled with some very strict setting?

amandad: time 29.994: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.994: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.995: pid 3201 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:11:11 2006

I attach 2 *.debug files

Leonid

amandad: debug 1 pid 25096 ruid 34 euid 34: start at Tue Jan 24 10:08:25 2006
amandad: version 2.4.5p1
amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.5p1"
amandad:        BUILT_DATE="Thu Dec 29 11:59:13 MST 2005"
amandad:        BUILT_MACH="Linux rover 2.6.12-9-686 #1 Mon Oct 10 13:25:32 BST 
2005 i686 GNU/Linux"
amandad:        CC="gcc"
amandad:        CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' '--prefix=/usr' 
'--bindir=/usr/sbin' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda' 
'--enable-shared' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists' 
'--with-index-server=localhost' '--with-user=backup' '--with-group=backup' 
'--with-bsd-security' '--with-amandahosts' 
'--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-debugging=/var/log/amanda' 
'--with-tcpportrange=50000,50100' '--with-udpportrange=840,860'"
amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/sbin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
amandad:        libexecdir="/usr/lib/amanda" mandir="/usr/share/man"
amandad:        AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda"
amandad:        AMANDA_DBGDIR="/var/log/amanda" CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda"
amandad:        DEV_PREFIX="/dev/" RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
amandad:        RESTORE="/sbin/restore" VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:        XFSDUMP="/sbin/xfsdump" XFSRESTORE="/sbin/xfsrestore"
amandad:        VXDUMP=UNDEF VXRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:        SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
amandad:        COMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip" UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip"
amandad:        LPRCMD="/usr/bin/lpr" MAILER="/usr/bin/mail"
amandad:        listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
amandad: defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
amandad:        DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost"
amandad:        DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
amandad:        LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
amandad:        AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS
amandad:        CLIENT_LOGIN="backup" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
amandad:        COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
amandad:        COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
amandad: time 30.009: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.010: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.010: pid 25096 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:08:56 2006

amandad: debug 1 pid 3201 ruid 37 euid 37: start at Tue Jan 24 10:10:41 2006
amandad: version 2.4.4p3
amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4p3"
amandad:        BUILT_DATE="Tue Mar 22 19:23:34 UTC 2005"
amandad:        BUILT_MACH="Linux c001n13 2.6.9 #1 Thu Jan 27 09:19:29 UTC 2005 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux"
amandad:        CC="gcc"
amandad:        CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--prefix=/usr' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc' 
'--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--with-index-server=localhost' 
'--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists' 
'--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-amandahosts' '--with-user=amanda' 
'--with-group=disk' '--with-gnutar=/bin/tar' '--disable-libtool' 
'--disable-shared' '--disable-static'"
amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/bin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
amandad:        libexecdir="/usr/lib/amanda" mandir="/usr/share/man"
amandad:        AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda" AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda"
amandad:        CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/"
amandad:        RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
amandad:        RESTORE="/sbin/restore" VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:        XFSDUMP=UNDEF XFSRESTORE=UNDEF VXDUMP=UNDEF VXRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:        SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
amandad:        COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip"
amandad:        UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip" LPRCMD="/usr/bin/lpr"
amandad:        MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
amandad:        listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
amandad: defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
amandad:        DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost"
amandad:        DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
amandad:        LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
amandad:        AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS
amandad:        CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
amandad:        COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
amandad:        COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
amandad: time 29.994: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.994: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.995: pid 3201 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:11:11 2006