Amanda-Users

Re: Amanda must be run as user amandabackup when using bsdtcp authentication

2009-05-18 23:31:34
Subject: Re: Amanda must be run as user amandabackup when using bsdtcp authentication
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 23:21:34 -0400
On Monday 18 May 2009, Abilio Carvalho wrote:
>Anyone? I'm kinda lost at a problem that seems so basic, and I could
>really use a second pair of eyes. As far as I can see, all config
>files are correct, permissions on /tmp and /var amanda subdirectories
>are fine, etc. It's NOT just a case of me overlooking something that
>can be found on the 15 mins amanda backup doc. At least, I don't think
>so.
>
>Thanks
>
>Abilio
>
>On May 18, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Abilio Carvalho wrote:
>> I'm getting this when I do am amcheck -c, but I don't know what I'm
>> missing.
>>
>> Here's the relevant data:
>>
>> Server works: I have 6 hosts configured, only 1 is failing. Client
>> that fails is a new install I'm doing atm.
>>
>> amanda was configured with: ./configure --without-server --with-
>> user=amandabackup --with-group=disk --prefix= --with-amandahosts --
>> without-ipv6
>>

Ahh, whats the '--prefix=' but no argument for it?  Other than that you are 
enough different from my setup I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to help.

>> /var/lib/amanda and the .amandahosts in it is owned by
>> amandabackup:disk
>>
>> output of inetadm -l svc:/network/amanda/tcp is:
>>
>> SCOPE    NAME=VALUE
>>          name="amanda"
>>          endpoint_type="stream"
>>          proto="tcp"
>>          isrpc=FALSE
>>          wait=FALSE
>>          exec="/libexec/amanda/amandad -auth=bsdtcp"
>>          user="amandabackup"
>> default  bind_addr=""
>> default  bind_fail_max=-1
>> default  bind_fail_interval=-1
>> default  max_con_rate=-1
>> default  max_copies=-1
>> default  con_rate_offline=-1
>> default  failrate_cnt=40
>> default  failrate_interval=60
>> default  inherit_env=TRUE
>> default  tcp_trace=FALSE
>> default  tcp_wrappers=FALSE
>>
>>
>> Can you help me figure out what unbelievably basic thing I missed?
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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