Joshua, I had to add amandad to inetd.conf; chmod the /etc/dumpdates file and chmod the raw devices files to allow the dump user to write. amcheck has no errors. I am attempting a dump now.
Thanks for your help. Jeff Parker On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:18:52AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > CCed back to the list -- please keep all discussions there, for the > archives and so others can jump in. > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 at 10:13am, Jeffrey Parker wrote > > > Thanks for getting back to me. I HAVE checked the above. > > Here's where I am puzzled. I get no /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug? > > because (I thought) that amandad is not configuired for the server. > > All docs I have make no entry for amandad in inetd.conf. I assumed > > ?? That's not what docs/INSTALL says. You need to set up (x)inetd > entries for amanda for all clients. > > > I would not used amandad because the FS's are local. Just for the > > Even if it's the server, it's still also a client. > > > heck of it, however, I tried putting the amandad entry for the clients > > in the server inetd.conf and then I would get errors from dump > > saying that the specified filesystems are not readable. > > So now you've got permissions problems. The user amanda is running as > needs to have read permissions on the raw disk devices. > > BTW, it woule *really* help if you included the actual error messages when > asking for help. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University -- --Jeffrey W. Parker --Unix/Linux System Administrator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.xnet.com/~jwp/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------