This was it!
I set the permissions to /dev/root the right way and it works. I just
got find out, how the ruleset of udev works, because it seems not so
trivial than it looked at first place.
THANKS A LOT!
Regards,
Thomas
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 09:46 -0700, Broderick Wood wrote:
> One of the problems on the NEW versions of Linux is this whole /etc/udev/...
> stuff.
>
> At reboot it rewrites the permissions on /dev/root as root RW only.
>
> SO unless your client is running as root it will fail.
>
> You can edit the appropriate file under /etc/udev/........... to make root
> be RW to a particular group as well.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
> To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: still permision denied
>
>
> > On Monday 23 January 2006 06:10, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
> >>Here is the error message of amcheck:
> >>
> >>###############################
> >>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> >>--------------------------------
> >>ERROR: praxis.plus.sbg.ac.at: [could not access /dev/root (/):
> >>Permission denied]
> >>ERROR: ralph.edvz.sbg.ac.at: [could not access /dev/root (/):
> >> Permission denied]
> >>Client check: 3 hosts checked in 0.241 seconds, 2 problems found
> >>###############################
> >
> > Please describe to this list, exactly how you installed amanda. If from
> > tarball, every step to the final "make install".
> >
> >>and now the fstab entry in one of the machines:
> >>###############################
> >>LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults
> >>1 1
> >>###############################
> >>
> >>I used to use GNUTAR. I recognized, that there are 2 instances of tar
> >>installed on these systems! So I switched to DUMP, but it didn't work
> >>out.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Thomas
> >
> > --
> > Cheers, Gene
> > People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
> > 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
> > stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-)
> > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
> > message by Gene Heskett are:
> > Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
> >
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