On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:18:06PM -0700, Robert Grey enlightened us:
> On Jun 24, 2006, at 6:27 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:46:27PM -0700, Robert Grey wrote:
> >>I am setting up Amanda on a Gentoo box with an Overland  
> >>LoaderXPress and
> >>can't seem to get past an amcheck issue. The amdump operation  
> >>works fine
> >>but amcheck gives this error:
> >
> >amdump is working but amcheck is not?
> >I'd first check permissions on amcheck.
> >It should be root owned and setuid'ed.
> >
> 
> setuid is set and the owner is root; this was set by the gentoo  
> emerge (build) process:
> 
> dev64 daily # ls -la /usr/sbin/amcheck
> -rws--x--- 1 root amanda 40640 Jun 23 00:08 /usr/sbin/amcheck
> 
> I am fairly sure the permissions are correct because amcheck running  
> as amanda does switch the tapes after it can't work with the drive:
> 
> dev64 ~ # ls -la /dev/sg0
> crw-rw---- 1 root tape 21, 0 Jun 23 00:43 /dev/sg0
> dev64 ~ # ls -la /dev/changer
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 24 12:07 /dev/changer -> sg0
> dev64 ~ # ls -la /dev/nst0
> crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 128 Jun 23 00:43 /dev/nst0
> dev64 ~ # ls -la /dev/tape
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 24 12:07 /dev/tape -> nst0
> dev64 ~ # sudo -u amanda id
> uid=87(amanda) gid=87(amanda) groups=26(tape),87(amanda)
> 
> >
> >>-----------
> >>Here is my amanda.conf:
> >>-----------
> >>org "daily"
> >>mailto "<removed>"      # space separated list of operators at  
> >>your site
> >>dumpuser "amanda"       # the user to run dumps under
> >
> >is amanda user or amanda's group allowed to read the tape device?
> >
> 
> see above
> 

"tape" is the group which can read/write the tape drive. amanda is part of
that group, but it is not it's primary group. I didn't see your xinetd
config file, but do you have "groups = yes" set, so that xinetd will allow
the permissions of secondary groups to be used?

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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