All of my issues have been solved and Amanda is running like a champ. I
wanted to thank all of you that worked with me off list to solve the
problem and apologize for posting so many emails at first.
The final solution:
You know how hard it is to RTFM at times.. In the chg-zd-mtx
script itself
Jon -
Perhaps I'm have a blonde moment over this whole configuration issue.
Please excuse my ignorance... and I do appreciate your help. Below see
my comments embedded in your last email..
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:16, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Is there a groups command on your system.
Or maybe the
On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:54, Pete Poggione wrote:
Jon -
Perhaps I'm have a blonde moment over this whole configuration
issue. Please excuse my ignorance... and I do appreciate your
help. Below see my comments embedded in your last email..
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:16, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Eric -
Yeah my brain must have been up my proverbial a**. I actually tried that
first and it didn't work. What I didn't pay attention to was that
/dev/sg2 actually was a sym link to /dev/scsi/host0/ (I'm running
Mandrake 9 and using devfs) So once I changed the group recursively of
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 09:58, Pete Poggione wrote:
If I change the group of /dev/sg2 to disk (the amanda group on my box is
'disk') I still get the same problem:
[root@ruby daily-net]# ls -la /dev/sg2
lr-xr-xr-x1 root disk 36 Feb 10 13:45 /dev/sg2 -
scsi/host0/
Pete,
Could
You and I are thinking the same. As I looked further it seems for some
reason the target was not owned by root but rather by me.(?) changing
the ownership to root eliminated all permission issues. It is now like
this:
[root@ruby dev]# ls -l sg2
lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 36 Feb 10
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:49, Pete Poggione wrote:
You and I are thinking the same. As I looked further it seems for some
reason the target was not owned by root but rather by me.(?) changing
the ownership to root eliminated all permission issues. It is now like
this:
[root@ruby dev]# ls -l
amcheck now gives me:
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /var/tmp: 7048472 KB disk space available, that's plenty
amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not determine current
slot
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
Hi Pete,
Could you try this patch.
Jean-Louis
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:25:40PM -0500, Pete Poggione wrote:
amcheck now gives me:
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /var/tmp: 7048472 KB disk space available, that's plenty
amcheck-server: could not
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:25:40PM -0500, Pete Poggione wrote:
amcheck now gives me:
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /var/tmp: 7048472 KB disk space available, that's plenty
amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not determine current
If this problem is addressed somewhere else in the mail list archives I
apologize in advance. I have not been able to find anything that helps
me solve this problem after 3 days of searching and fiddling...
THE HISTORY:
I have had Amanda configured and running on this server with a single
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:41, Pete Poggione wrote:
I get an error trying to access /dev/sg2 as the Amanda user so I had to
set /sbin/mtx to run as suid root. That seemed to take care of that
issue (if anyone has a better idea let me know)
Pete,
This is not wise-- with suid root, any
amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from
changer: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx: line 151: [: : integer expression
expected
You neglected to mention what version of Amanda you're using, but this
was a known problem with chg-zd-mtx a while back. I don't think it was
every
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