On Thursday 08 January 2004 11:17, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>To follow up on myself, the rights issues have been fixed.
>The key step was making the amanda user member of the backup group.
>Notice: it is necessary to logout an existing amanda session when
>rebuilding, as otherwise the original group membership will
>persist (and hence the original error message, see below bottom).
>
>Below procedure will make you happy on SPARC Solaris 7
>(appropriately GNUified, of course):
>
>bash-2.00$ /usr/local/sbin/amcheck daily
>Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>-
>Holding disk /Disk2/AMANDA: 2667734 KB disk space available, that's
> plenty NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
>Tape DailySet11 label ok
>NOTE: info dir /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo: does not exist
>NOTE: it will be created on the next run
>NOTE: index dir /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/index/192.168.0.73: does
> not exist Server check took 0.061 seconds
>
>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>
>ERROR: 192.168.0.73: [can not read/write
> /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/.: No such file or directory]
> Client check: 1 host checked in 1.104 seconds, 1 problem found
>
>(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p1)
>
>There are only minor config issues left to be resolved.
>
>Thanks, everybody!
>
>Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> Andrea Dell'Amico wrote:
>>> Don't do that, neither. Assign the group "backup" to the amanda
>>> user, chown root /usr/local/sbin/amcheck, and then rerun it as
>>> amanda.
>>
>> I've done what Gene Heskett said:
>>
>> # cat /etc/group
>> ...
>> backup::303:amanda
>> ...
>> # cat /etc/passwd
>> ...
>> amanda:x:400:303:Amanda Operator:/Disk2/amanda:/bin/bash
>> ...
>>
>> As user amanda:
>> bash-2.00$ tar zxvf amanda-2.4.4p1.tar.gz
>> ...
>> bash-2.00$ export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib"
>> bash-2.00$ cd amanda-2.4.4p1
>> bash-2.00$ ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=backup
>> ...
>> bash-2.00$ make
>> ...
>> bash-2.00$ su
>> # make install
>> ...
>> bash-2.00$ id amanda
>> uid=400(amanda) gid=303(backup)
>>
>> bash-2.00$ amcheck daily
>> bash: /usr/local/sbin/amcheck: Permission denied
>>
>> I've tried diverse suggestions from other posters (thanks!),
>> but so far can't get anything other than a verboten, or the usual
>> 'port not secure' shinola.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll keep trying.
It sound like some of that tree is owned by root, so become root, cd
to /usr/local/var, and
chown -R amanda:backup amanda
And then don't touch that stuff as root :)
--
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