Dear Kevin, et al.,
My bug in which Amanda created its dump-holding directory with
permissions that made it impossible for it to write on that directory
--- it's fixed. The fix was to change the ownership of one or more of
the files in /home/amanda. I'm not sure which file ownerships made
the di
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote:
> Dear Kevin, et al.,
>
> My bug in which Amanda created its dump-holding directory with
> permissions that made it impossible for it to write on that directory
> --- it's fixed. The fix was to change the ownership of one or more of
>
Your bug is also with:
chmod -R 6770 /home/amanda/libexec/* /home/amanda/sbin/*
Setting all binary to suid and sgid is a bad idea, especially since you
set their owner to root.
With the owner set to amanda, it's not a good idea either.
You should only set suid and sgid on required binary wi
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:47:42PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote:
> > chown root.disk /home/amanda/libexec/runtar
>
> All the chown's I've used require a colon (':'),
> not a period ('.') between the user and group.
It's a BSD-ism that'
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:17:38AM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:47:42PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote:
> > > chown root.disk /home/amanda/libexec/runtar
> >
> > All the chown's I've used require a colon (':
Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Your bug is also with:
> > chmod -R 6770 /home/amanda/libexec/* /home/amanda/sbin/*
> >
> Setting all binary to suid and sgid is a bad idea, especially since
> you set their owner to root.
>From my script, with added comments:
chown -R amanda.di
Steve Newcomb wrote:
Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Your bug is also with:
chmod -R 6770 /home/amanda/libexec/* /home/amanda/sbin/*
Setting all binary to suid and sgid is a bad idea, especially since
you set their owner to root.
From my script, with ad
