On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, David Lloyd wrote:
>It appears that AMANDA must write to:
>
>* its config directories
>* /etc/dumpdates (if you're using dump)
>* /etc/amandates
>* /usr/adm/amanda or wherever you've set the log directories to
>* /tmp
>
>If it can't write to any of them it can simply die silently. No error.
>Nothing - especially if /tmp fails. amrecover and the index server seem
>to be the most susceptible to non-writable directories, although amandad
>and almost anything else that logs to /tmp can fail silently.
>
>I'm inclined to hack the source and stop it from dying without a trace;
>maybe a syslog of messages.critical saying there is no AMANDA logs would
>
Amcheck tests and reports on all of these conditions. Didn't you put it
into your nightly backup script as suggested in the install guide?
/tmp itself is supposed to be world read/write, even user nobody can
write there under most unixes. If /tmp isn't world writable all kinds
of things break. I wouldn't hold this one against Amanda...
--
Joi Ellis
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