Hello...

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 15:10 -0500, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
> I have set up an Amanda client on a Red Hat 5.2 server and amcheck
> recognizes the new client.
> 
> One of the things that I had to do for the 5.2 client to work is change
> the permissions and group for the device /dev/root. 
> 
> The problem is that this change will not last past a reboot. I had this
> same problem on a Red Hat 4.x client, a while back, and found a file
> that I could modify that would set /dev/root to the way I needed at boot
> time. But for the life of me I cannot remember the file that I need to
> change.
> 


see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215333


shell> cat /etc/rc.local 

#!/bin/sh
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215333
/bin/chmod 640       /dev/root
/bin/chown root:disk /dev/root



> Can anyone help.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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