On Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:04, stan wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:46:38PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:23, stan wrote:
>> >On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:34:17PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:59, stan wrote:
>> >> >I'm setting up a new Ubuntu box as my next generation Amanda
>> >> > server. Somehow the /etc/hosts file for this machine was
>> >> > created looking like this:
>>
>> FQDN's or addresses, but see below.
>>
>> >BTW, hostname returns "amanda", not the FQDN. I geuss I could
>> > change /etc/hostname to the FQDN if needed.
>>
>> Yes, 'hostname' should return the FQDN. Here I don't use a dns
>> server for local stuff, just the /etc/hosts files on all machines.
>> And each FQDN also has a one word alias that works just fine for
>> such things as disklist entries. It also works for that script of
>> mine, but I cleaned that up for public comsumption as its not always
>> going to work for everyone if they're using a dns & no hosts file.
>>
>> FWIW my tar isn't that one either, I'm using a locally built 1.15-1
>> installed in /usr/local/bin, with that line suitably modifed.
>
>OK, I corected my /etc/hosts file as shown above. Now, when I run a
> dump it seems to go OK (went to hloding disk, but when it finishes I
> expect to find a tape name problem.
>
>However, on the Amanda server itself / was backed up, but to other
> partions in the disklist failed to estimate. and amcheck claims it
> can't read the gnutar exclude file. Permissions on all of these seem
> OK, and were working before I messed with /etchosts, the first time.
>
>Sugestions?
You did build amanda as a unpriviledged (uid>500) user, and then become
root to install her, followed by a run of ldconfig, also as root? This
sound like a permissions problem, and not doing the above is probably
90% of the permissions problems genesis moment. This unpriviledged
user, and I use amanda for that, also needs to be a member of the group
'disk' or possibly 'backup' in order to function nominally.
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