Amanda-Users

Re: dumper: FATAL must be run setuid root

2006-01-30 04:47:22
Subject: Re: dumper: FATAL must be run setuid root
From: Leonid Shulov <lshulov AT arabellasw DOT com>
To: "Amanda user's group" <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:34:45 +0200
1. I upgraded amanda from amanda from Debian package

2. I changed prmission to:
  /usr/lib/amanda/# chmod u+s dumper killpgrp planner rundump runtar
  and now its work.

Thanks for help

Leonid

Paul Bijnens wrote:

Leonid Shulov wrote:

After I have upgraded amanda in server side to 2.4.5p1-2 version it stoped backup.


How did you upgrade?
If compiling from source, you must "make install" as root.
If not, the install process cannot set the permissions correct,
and Amanda will not work.

If it were rpms, which ones?

It is easiest if you just reinstall as root.
Otherwise, from the list below, the client is correct.


In log file of amdump I see:

 dumper: FATAL must be run setuid root to communicate correctly

Which permission  should be installed?
In server side permissions is:
-rwxr-xr--    1 root disk    30628 Dec 29 21:00 dumper
-rwxr-xr--    1 root disk     5660 Dec 29 21:00 killpgrp
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root root     4810 Dec 29 20:59 patch-system
-rwxr-xr--    1 root disk    35608 Dec 29 21:00 planner
-rwxr-xr--    1 root disk     4764 Dec 29 21:00 rundump
-rwxr-xr--    1 root disk     5048 Dec 29 21:00 runtar
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root root    18140 Dec 29 21:00 selfcheck
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root root    31912 Dec 29 21:00 sendbackup
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root root    29624 Dec 29 21:00 sendsize
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root root    33004 Dec 29 21:00 taper


But I guess the error message changes: e.g. planner also needs
to have correct permissions.