Hello...


On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 17:51 -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> Amanda 2.6.1p1 on RHEL 5.3
> 
> Hi All:
> 
> I am attempting to add the following entries to an exiting disklist
> file:
> 
>     pgips2 /            always-full
>     pgips2 /boot        always-full
> 
> When I run the amcheck I get the following error:
> 
>     ERROR: pgips2: Could not access /dev/root (/): Permission denied
> 

rhel5-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

touch /var/lock/subsys/local



> I have done a bunch of searching on the web and as a result I have
> tried change the permissions on /dev/root from 600 to 640 and 660.
> That did not work so I tried "setfacl -m u:amandabackup:rwx /dev/root"
> but that did not work. I have also tried changing the permissions and
> adding and ACL to / but that did not work either.
> 
> Background:
> 
> I installed the amanda-backup_server-2.6.1p1-1.rhel5.i386.rpm from
> the Zmanada web site. This created the amandabackup user which I use
> for all the Amanda commands. Everything is running on a single box
> at this point so not networking is involved yet.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Regards, Hugh
> 
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