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

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