On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:40:00PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:47:33PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > ISTR, from your original message, that the "Strange" message said > > unable to create temporary directory under, /tmp, /var/tmp, and /. > > I don't recall it saying anything about /tmp/amanda. I don't > > understand why you are fixed on that particular directory. > > That was confusing me too :) > > To clarify, ufsdump is prbably trying to create temporary files on its > own (who knows why, but lots of programs do it!). Because of some > permissions problem, it is unable to create those files. Likely causes: > - bad permissions on /tmp, /var/tmp, and / > - ufsdump not running as the correct user > - selinux or other kernel-based security mechanisms ^^^^^^^
This particular one is not too likely on a system using ufsdump ;) -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)