On Friday 21 January 2005 03:55, Hans van Zijst wrote: >Hi Gene, > >Gene Heskett wrote: >> First, the normal amanda install is to configure and make it as an >> unpriviledged user, like 'amanda'. This user 'amanda' should be >> made a member of the group 'disk' or some similar high ranking >> operator. >> >> When that make is done, then become root to do the install, and >> re-running ldconfig after that is a good idea too. >> >> If thats done, the installer will properly set the permissions and >> amanda should be able to backup just about everything. If this >> sequence is not done, then amanda will have all sorts of >> permissions problems. > >Thanks for the hint. I didn't know about the ldconfig trick, what > does that do? Unfortunately this doesn't make any difference. I > fixed the permissions of the lvm files, then reconfigured, > recompiled and reinstalled Amanda and ran ldconfig (I added the > amanda libdir to ld.so.conf first). But still the same problem. > More hints? :) > >Regards, > >Hans
Are you using xinetd? You may have to edit the amanda related file(s) in the /etc/xinetd.d directory. They should look something like this: # default = off # # description: Part of the Amanda server package # This is the list of daemons & such it needs service amanda { disable = no socket_type = dgram protocol = udp wait = yes user = amanda group = disk groups = yes server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad } service amandaidx { disable = no socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = amanda group = disk groups = yes server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd } service amidxtape { disable = no socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = amanda group = disk groups = yes server = /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped } Show the list the output of an "amcheck [configname]" while su'd to the operator that will run amanda, and whose crontab will contain the command to run amdump. I make it simple and just added a user named 'amanda', then makeing amanda a member of group 'disk'. I also, as root, will do a 'chown -R amanda:disk amanda-2.4.5b1-20041221/' when I remember it, but I don't see any drastic effects most of the time, depending on what user Jean-Louis was when he packed up the archive :-) amanda-2.4.5b1-20041221 is the build dir and exists in /home/amanda/, keeping it all in the family so to speak. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.