Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:58:48 -0400
wrote: See? Its sort of a now it can be told thing. But that brings up the question of who owns /home/amanda on such a (broken IMO) installation? Somebody should tell the debian/buntu folks that one
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:44:16 -0400
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote: Presumably backup's home directory (in /etc/passwd) is /home/amanda. Don't blame me, I'm not a kubuntu developer
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:32:57 -0400
wrote: Humm, from /etc/passwd: amanda:x:1001:6:...:/var/lib/amanda:/bin/bash backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh · login name · optional encrypted password · numerical user ID · numerical grou
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: As I can see /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Amanda/Process.pm imports the Constants from /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Amanda/Constants.pm. Line 83 of Constants.pm lo
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:59:15 -0400
Hmm -- did it run out of space during the first run? You're probably right about the "record no" option, then. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: The path "/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists" exists and amanda is the owner. Inside the directory there is only a file called "servlnx01.sebhen.lan_home_1.new" At the moment I'
Author: Charles Curley <charlescurley AT charlescurley DOT com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:12:10 -0600
Actually, nobody owns it; it doesn't exist on a standard Ubuntu installation. From my unchanged Ubuntu client installation: root@dzur:/var# grep backup /etc/passwd backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: Yes, during first run I also had to insert a new tape. At the moment I'm taking a deeper look at chg-manual. When I call "amdevcheck test" (test is my amanda config) with
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:32:33 -0400
Yes, that's a packaging issue. Actually, it sounds like a directory-doesn't-exist problem -- try fixing that.. Hmm, I don't know much about that old script -- obviously, since I didn't even know it t
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:53:20 -0400
amdevcheck actually does an end-run around the changer and just accesses the device (tapedev) directly. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: This was what I wanted. I'm trying to rewrite the chg-manual script. I wanted to call amdevchange every 60 seconds. If amdevchange returns VOLUME_MISSING I send an email r
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:51:56 -0400
Oookaaay, what do you get from a "grep amanda /etc/passwd"? Yeah, this might be a 2 beer night yet. :( Thanks Charles -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, bal
Author: Charles Curley <charlescurley AT charlescurley DOT com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:29:05 -0600
About the value of a political promise on election night. ccurley@dragon:~$ egrep amanda\|backup /etc/passwd backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh ccurley@dragon:~$ grep amanda /etc/passwd ccurl
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:46:37 -0400
So you don't even have a user amanda, nor a /home/amanda directory... Interesting. Bears further investigation I believe. When I'm fresher. Thanks Charles. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be
Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert AT linux-m68k DOT org>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:56:46 +0200
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 03:46, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote: Debian and Ubuntu use the `backup' user. It's homedir is `/var/backups', and /var/backups/.amandahosts is a symlink
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:40:24 -0400
So the non-linked files that I put in as /home/amanda/.amandahosts, and home/backup/.amandahosts are un-needed, and can be nuked. Done, and amcheck is still happy. That was pretty prehistoric then. A
Author: Nathan Stratton Treadway <nathanst AT ontko DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:27:45 -0400
On a stock Debian/Ubuntu installation, UID 1001 is the first in the "user accounts" range, which would indicate that you created that 'amanda' account "manually" at some point.... On the other hand,
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: I'm unable to find this build rule. My config/amanda/tape.m4 ends at line 187. I greped through the whole amanda 2.6.1p1 source and the string DEFAULT_TAPE_NON_BLOCKING_OP
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:12:21 -0400
Oh! This was fixed relatively recently -- to my surprise, apparently since 2.6.1 was released. You can apply the patch: http://github.com/zmanda/amanda/commit/7c2db2917b26ca8386661e7f1dddf8571f8b54bd