On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:40:00PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:47:33PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > ISTR, from your original message, that the "Strange" message said
> > unable to create temporary directory under, /tmp, /var/tmp, and /.
> > I don't recall it saying anything about /tmp/amanda.  I don't
> > understand why you are fixed on that particular directory.
> 
> That was confusing me too :)
> 
> To clarify, ufsdump is prbably trying to create temporary files on its
> own (who knows why, but lots of programs do it!).  Because of some
> permissions problem, it is unable to create those files.  Likely causes:
>  - bad permissions on /tmp, /var/tmp, and /
>  - ufsdump not running as the correct user
>  - selinux or other kernel-based security mechanisms
     ^^^^^^^

This particular one is not too likely on a system using ufsdump  ;)


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