Re: Amanda FreeBSD: gtar must be run as operator

2002-10-28 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Where are you setting what user amdump gets run as? That depends on how you start amdump. If you do it with cron (as 99% of people do, I think) then you specify the user in /etc/crontab (if using systemwide crontab) BTW, Amanda has its own mailing list which was pretty good, last time I

Re: Amanda FreeBSD: gtar must be run as operator

2002-10-27 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! error [must be invoked by operator] Well, your message missed an obvious bit of information - is amdump invoked as user operator? If not, who does it run as? To work correctly, most of the Amanda stuff wants to run as user AMANDA_USER, which in FreeBSD port is set to operator, IIRC. --

Amanda FreeBSD: gtar must be run as operator

2002-10-25 Thread Jess Fiorelli
I've been trying to configure the amanda client on my freebsd (4.6-stable) machine and have been running into problems. amcheck works fine, but when it actually tries to run the backup, I get these errors and the status email says disk off line: -- [root@ignatius:/tmp/amanda] # more