On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Denise Ives wrote:
>Anyone seen this happen before?
Yes.
>Email Response from peer admin:
>I am thinking this happened because of the update of dump I made
>yesterday to overcome the security glitch. I don't know if I have made any
>mistake but I have followed the procedure given in the site. It did not
>give me any errors, yesterday, when the rpms were being installed.
>Any clues, anyone?
[snip]
>Your "cron" job on sundev1
>/sbin/su amanda -c "/usr/local/pkg/amanda-2.4.1p1/sbin/amcheck -c daily"
>
>ERROR: admin1.corp.walid.com: [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates: No such
>file or directory]
/etc/dumpdates is provided as part of the dump package, and rpm
undoubtedly replaced your amanda-writable permissions with root-only
permissions, which are the usual default.
Go chown /etc/dumpdates back to user amanda and it will be fine.
--
Joi Ellis
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/
