-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've just added a few entries to my disklist and am getting errors like the following, during amcheck:
ERROR: athena: [could not access /srv/samba/netlogon (/srv/samba/netlogon): Permission denied] ERROR: athena: [could not access /srv/samba/install (/srv/samba/install): Permission denied] This is strange, because other entries, such as /root and /etc have been backed-up correctly for many months. This is a Debian system where AMANDA uses user 'backup', which is a member of user 'disk' - this should allow it to backup all local disks without further privileges. /srv/samba, /root and /etc are all on the same partition, /dev/sda1: # ls -l /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Jun 15 18:26 /dev/sda1 Various permissions: (For working entries in disklist) # ls -ld /root drwxr-x--- 15 root root 4096 Dec 14 14:31 /root # ls -ld /etc drwxr-xr-x 85 root root 4096 Dec 14 14:38 /etc (For non-working entries in disklist) # ls -ld /srv drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 28 10:39 /srv # ls -ld /srv/samba drwxr-s--- 10 root everyone 4096 Nov 21 10:38 /srv/samba # ls -ld /srv/samba/install/ drwxr-s--- 5 root everyone 4096 Nov 15 10:01 /srv/samba/install/ # ls -ld /srv/samba/netlogon/ drwxr-s--- 3 root everyone 4096 Dec 14 09:08 /srv/samba/netlogon/ If I make '/srv/samba' chmod-ed to 755, then the permissions errors go away. HOWEVER, I don't want to do that, since there are good reasons for that directory having the permissions it does. Why is this directory not visible to the AMANDA process, given that the AMANDA user is part of group 'disk' and that should give it access to those partitions? The '/root/' partition is only (technically) visible to the root user, yet AMANDA is able to correctly back this up. Ideas/hints? Dave. - -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit Cancer Research UK / Oxford University PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac-uk.asc N 51.7518, W 1.2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDoDHtbpQs/WlN43ARArqiAKDlnbEHeiERhCJ4RZ1K6pfA+T61/QCgmo4e EeFlnVElcIw6MEjUNkrMVI0= =gTQG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----