Re: Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-20 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, Frank, and everyone else. My guess is that the permission problem is higher up. Try su - amanda and then try to cd down the directory structure. The index, pip, and _users5 directories should be created automatically during the backup run. As the amanda user, see if you can create a

Re: Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-20 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, Gene, The only thing that comes to mind quickly is probably related to the question/statement you do have a user amanda, who is a member of group disk, don't you? Yes, of course. I think that was done automagically when I installed the amanda rpms. As I said in my response to Frank,

Re: Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-20 Thread Galen Johnson
Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: Hi, Gene, The only thing that comes to mind quickly is probably related to the question/statement you do have a user amanda, who is a member of group disk, don't you? Yes, of course. I think that was done automagically when I installed the amanda rpms. As

Re: Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 20 September 2002 10:03, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: Hi, Gene, [...] As I said in my response to Frank, I'm going to rip everything out (after saving my amanda.conf file and disklist file) and start over. The saveing isn't required, if they exist, they are not overwritten by the

Re: Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 20 September 2002 11:06, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 20 September 2002 10:03, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: Hi, Gene, [...] As I said in my response to Frank, I'm going to rip everything out (after saving my amanda.conf file and disklist file) and start over. The saveing isn't

Re: Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-20 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 15:07, Gene Heskett wrote: I should have qualified that by saying the tarballs installer won't. I have NDI whether the rpm does or not. I did use the rpms, I did reinstall, and everything worked. I have no clue what went wrong the first time. All I know I

Re: Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 20 September 2002 15:43, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 15:07, Gene Heskett wrote: I should have qualified that by saying the tarballs installer won't. I have NDI whether the rpm does or not. I did use the rpms, I did reinstall, and everything worked. I have no clue

Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-19 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, everyone, OK, I admit it. amanda is kicking my you-know-what. amdump is failing because it's unable to write it's index files. Why? From the errors it looks like a permissions problem, but the directory is owned by amanda and right now I've got everything opened up to chmod 777. There

Re: Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 September 2002 17:15, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: Hi, everyone, OK, I admit it. amanda is kicking my you-know-what. amdump is failing because it's unable to write it's index files. Why? From the errors it looks like a permissions problem, but the directory is owned by amanda and