On Monday 18 November 2002 00:32, Kevin F. La Barre wrote: >>I just chown'd all amanda related files to root:operator to >> basically verify that this problem was truely a permissions >> issue and things actually work. Now I have to find out what >> exactly is causing the perms issues when I run things as the >> amanda user. > >-Kevin > While I've never used the operator group (I use the group disk for that), one should be aware that its often required to go back into the config dir, or one level up from it, and do as root, a command that resembles this one for my system:
chown -R amanda:disk * which if you do it, and assuming you are currrently cd'd to say /usr/local/etc/amanda, will recursively set everything in the amanda directory and all directories deeper than that, to the user:group specified. I've had editors change the owner back to root when updateing a file, and boom, instant problem. You may have to execute it more than once while you are fine-tuning the configuration, and probably should do it once again when its all working just to catch the stragglers. FWIW, vim doesn't seem to do that, kwrite often does. To re-emphasize the docs, amanda should be unpacked, configured and made as user amanda, only doing an 'su -' to root to do the make install. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
