--On Thursday, September 19, 2002 17:15:41 -0400 "Caitlyn M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, everyone, > > OK, I admit it. amanda is kicking my you-know-what. > > amdump is failing because it's unable to write it's index files. Why? > From the errors it looks like a permissions problem, but the directory > is owned by amanda and right now I've got everything opened up to chmod > 777. There error messages I'm getting look like: > > pip /users5 lev 0 FAILED [err create > /home/amanda/DailySet1/index/pip/_users5/20020919_0.gz.tmp: Permission > denied] > > This is amanda 2.4.2p2 running on Red Hat 7.3.94 (null/RH8 beta). > > OK, I'm still doing something simple and stupid wrong. Any clues what > that might be? > > Thanks, > Caity My guess is that the permission problem is higher up. Try su - amanda and then try to cd down the directory structure. The index, pip, and _users5 directories should be created automatically during the backup run. As the amanda user, see if you can create a file in /home/amanda/DailySet1/. If not, verify that amanda owns /home/amanda/ and everything below it. If /home/amanda is mounted from a remote server, make sure amanda can write to it. Chances are you set it up as root and some or all of the files and directories are still owned by root with hostile permissions. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
