Re: [Amanda-users] Need help setting up Amanda on Sles10

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-05-21 15:25, bperrotta wrote: When Installing go message couldn't create Amanda user. Using root user instead. Manually created Amanda user later on but don't know which groups to add it to. Got errors saying home directory was not created had other trouble with user rights. No sure

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /-- aixclient hd3 lev 0 FAILED [missing size line from sendbackup] sendbackup: start [aixclient:hd3 level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/gtar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gtar -f... - sendbackup: info

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Freels, James D.
We took a look at uustat and the only locked files were some batch jobs we had running. In addition, we have rebooted while trying to debug this, and have only run amanda after the reboot while debugging. So, if there is something else locking /etc/amandates, what would it be beside AMANDA ? We

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We took a look at uustat and the only locked files were some batch jobs we had running. In addition, we have rebooted while trying to debug this, and have only run amanda after the reboot while debugging. So, if there

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Freels, James D.
Ah, so perhaps focusing on tar is barking up the wrong tree ! We know AMANDA uses some root-level modules that require suid to function correctly. Could it be that this is going on with AMANDA such that it conflicts with AIX in a manner that locks (or won't unlock) amandates ? Is there a howto

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We know AMANDA uses some root-level modules that require suid to function correctly. Could it be that this is going on with AMANDA such that it conflicts with AIX in a manner that locks (or won't unlock) amandates ?

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Freels, James D.
Jen-Louis, OK. We can either downgrade tar or upgrade AMANDA on the AIX client. on the debian server , amadmin config version gives LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE on all the clients, including the AIX clients, it shows the same for LOCKING= I would prefer not to upgrade AMANDA

Re: [Fwd: Debian predictable random number generator]

2008-05-22 Thread Ken Crandall
It can also affect users who generated keys on affected Debian or Ubuntu systems, even if they're being used on other Linux distros or operating system types. Ken Crandall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Hoogendyk wrote: This is not an Amanda bug, but it may affect those who are using encryption

Re: .amandahosts owned by id ## should be ##

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Yeatman
-In response to your message- --received from Dustin J. Mitchell-- On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I compiled 2.6.0p1 and installed it yet continue to get the same result: often 7 but sometimes 134217735. I'm not versed enough with

Re: .amandahosts owned by id ## should be ##

2008-05-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=wheel --prefix=/usr/local --without-server --with-config=laptops --with-gnutar=/usr/bin/tar --libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec --localstatedir=/Users LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/include