I posted to the web -- but I don't know that it will find its
way back to amanda-users. Besides, the thread was 2 years old...
but its come back to haunt me.


--- In amanda-users AT yahoogroups DOT com, Jon LaBadie <jon@...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:04:49AM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Amanda is successfully running on our Solaris Servers. But on Amanda's
> > report (the E-mail it sends after amdump) I get the following STRANGE
> > message:
> > 
> > ? Unable to create temporary directory in any of the directories listed
> > below:
> > ?   /tmp/
> > ?   /var/tmp/
> > ?   /
> > 
> > But when I manually accessed the server as Amanda user - I had no problem
> > creating a folder under /tmp as well as /var/tmp/ !
> > 
> > Any thoughts why am I getting this message?
> > Additionally, can somebody tell me what files does Amada writes under /tmp
> > folder?
> 
> I replied to your earlier post on this topic but I don't see my response
> in my archive of the list.
> 
> That message is not coming from amanda directly, but coming from ufsdump.
> 
> Now the question is why ufsdump, running for amanda, can't deal with those
> directories.  I only had one possibility and have little confidence in it.
> 
> On my system /usr/sbin/ufsdump is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/fs/ufs/ufsdump.
> The latter program is root-owned, set-uid.  Perhaps yours has been altered.
> 
>   $ ls -l /usr/lib/fs/ufs/ufsdump
>   -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin   83820 Apr 12  2004 /usr/lib/fs/ufs/ufsdump

Jon,

I was looking at these errors again and it occured to me that
they might be from the 2.4.4 version of senddump, rather than
ufsdump. I have several systems giving this warning and they are
all at 2.4.4, I think perhaps the error is benign and result
from the /tmp/amanda directory already existing and the mkdir
failing.

I'd love to know for sure as we are reviewing our reports a little
differently now and I'd like to classify and either fix or ignore
these warnings.

thanks,

Brian

 
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