Amanda 3.3.4 Hi,
I made some changes to an amanda client. I created a new DLE that pointed to a dir without world-read/exec permissions, and then amcheck gave this error: ERROR: cfile-local: service selfcheck: selfcheck: Failed to chdir(/jag/cnds): Permission denied I googled a bit and saw that amcheck runs as user amandabackup so it couldn't read /jag/cnds. But amdump runs (or its client-side daemon runs) as root so it can read this dir regardless. So pushing fwd and running amdump, I got errors like this: planner: ERROR cfile-local: service sendsize: sendsize: Failed to chdir(/jag/cnds): Permission denied So on the client (cfile-local) I tried adding amandabackup to relevant group to allow read/exec permission on /jag/cnds dir. But that wouldn't work, I'm not sure why, possibly because the client is an NIS client. So I removed the amandabackup user, created amandabackup user on the NIS server, and changed the uid on the client for all amandabackup files to match the new uid from the NIS server. Now when I run amcheck/amdump I get errors that it can't create log files on the client: WARNING: cfile-local: selfcheck request failed: tcpm_recv_token: invalid size: "amandad: critical (fatal): Cannot create debug file \"/var/log/amanda/amandad/amandad.20140916160902.debug\": Permission denied\namandad: Cannot create debug file \"/var/log/amanda/amandad/amandad.2014091" Client check: 1 host checked in 0.285 seconds. 1 problem found. Logging on to the cfile-local client, I can read and create files in /var/log/amanda/amandad/ without problems, as root or amandabackup. Anyone have any suggestions? I've obviously done something to screw things up, but can't figure out what. Thanks. -M
