Further investigation results
Hi John,
FYI and also for others.
In Solaris 8 the raw devices are set to
crw------- root sys .....
ufsdump does a check on the real user id and will not let you at the raw
device if you are not really root even though the link from the /dev
directory is setuid. Chmod to allow crw-r--r-- allowed this to work. I
will also add amanda to the sys group and re-chmod to crw-r-----. This
should provide a little more security (as these machines are on the
net).
Many thanks for your assistance.
Regards
"John R. Jackson" wrote:
>
> >... Don't you ever sleep?
>
> I'm beginning to think it's a waste of time :-).
>
> >Sorry for appearing dumb but sendsize*debug? What it is?
>
> It's a file in /tmp/amanda on the client. Lots of good stuff going on
> in there.
>
> >ERROR: lagoon.ind.tansu.com.au: [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates:
> >Permission denied]
> >...
> >[amanda@lagoon]% ls -al /etc/dumpdates
> >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root sys 0 Feb 9 14:37 /etc/dumpdates
>
> Inetd fires up amandad as some particular user on this client.
> What groups is that user a member of? In particular, is it a member of
> group "sys"? If not, you either need to add it to group "sys" or change
> the group on /etc/dumpdates to a group it is a member of (the latter is
> the usual course of action).
>
> >David Logan
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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