touch the file as root then chown as the amanda user
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:04 AM To: Olivier Marie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A beginner needs some help... On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 at 5:51pm, Olivier Marie wrote > sendbackup: error [opening /etc/amandates: Is a directory] *snip* > I'm reading again and again documentation, but i don't see which may causes The error message tells all. On the client, amanda is trying to write the backup time into the file /etc/amandates. But, it's a directory. To fix this, 'rm -rf /etc/amandates', and 'touch /etc/amandates' as the amanda user. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
