I'm trying to set up an amanda client on an AIX 4.3.3 machine. amcheck -c doesn't complain about anything; but when backups are tried, the amanda result mail complains about the disks possibly being offline.
the runtar debug files in /tmp/amanda have the following: runtar: debug 1 pid 44618 ruid 431 euid 0 start time Tue Feb 12 00:48:34 2002 /usr/local/bin/tar: version 2.4.2p2 error [must be invoked by root] and indeed if one tries to do a 'runtar' by hand, as the amanda user (whom the backups are configured to run as), the same error message results. runtar is SUID root, tho, with perms 4750. runtar works fine when run as root. here's the long listing of the /usr/local/libexec directory, where the amanda binaries reside: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 298383 Feb 08 15:32 amandad -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 227 Feb 08 15:33 amcat.awk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 427793 Feb 08 15:33 amcleanupdisk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 278057 Feb 08 15:33 amidxtaped -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 708033 Feb 08 15:33 amindexd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 323618 Feb 08 15:33 amlogroll -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 15709 Feb 08 15:33 amplot.awk -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 3283 Feb 08 15:33 amplot.g -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 3293 Feb 08 15:33 amplot.gp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 615056 Feb 08 15:33 amtrmidx -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 612755 Feb 08 15:33 amtrmlog -rwsr-x--- 1 root system 219063 Feb 08 15:32 calcsize -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 10060 Feb 08 15:33 chg-chio -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 8253 Feb 08 15:33 chg-chs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 5788 Feb 08 15:33 chg-manual -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 4101 Feb 08 15:33 chg-mtx -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 9106 Feb 08 15:33 chg-multi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 6450 Feb 08 15:33 chg-rth -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 619591 Feb 08 15:33 chg-scsi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 15758 Feb 08 15:33 chg-zd-mtx -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 590179 Feb 08 15:33 driver -rwsr-x--- 1 root system 576267 Feb 08 15:33 dumper -rwsr-x--- 1 root system 199771 Feb 08 15:32 killpgrp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 4584 Feb 08 15:33 patch-system -rwsr-x--- 1 root system 713726 Feb 08 15:33 planner -rwsr-x--- 1 root system 194233 Feb 08 15:32 rundump -rwsr-x--- 1 root system 196080 Feb 08 15:32 runtar -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 252894 Feb 08 15:33 selfcheck -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 520361 Feb 08 15:33 sendbackup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 462489 Feb 08 15:33 sendsize -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 702266 Feb 08 15:33 taper -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 194051 Feb 08 15:33 versionsuffix the amanda user *is* part of the system group. amanda was installed from a binary found at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~ank/amanda/binaries/ (which seems to be unresponsive at the moment). the machine doesn't have a compiler; so recompiling isn't really a good option. what am I missing here? it's probably some AIX-specific thing. Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700
