On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 05:36:23PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> amcheck has begun saying it can't access some DLEs (permissions), but amdump 
> claims to have backed them up, and amverify says they're OK.
> 
> All the DLEs are in one partition of a disk -- the other partition gives no 
> trouble, but amcheck can't access any directories in this partition. The 
> owner, group, and permissions are the same as other directories that amcheck 
> doesn't complain about.
> 
> I have a feeling this is going to be a "Duh!", but I haven't been able to 
> figure it out. Can anyone shed any light?

Amcheck does not run some of its client checks as root.
Thus the amanda user and/or group(s) need access to the
directories they are checking if you wish to eliminate
the error messages.


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