On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Chris Pascoe wrote:

> Doug Silver writes:
> 
> > [root@dev amanda]# ll  /var/amanda/daily/index
> > total 21
> > drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel  1024 Apr  5 11:07 ./
> > drwxr-x---   5 root  wheel  1536 Apr  5 07:21 ../
> ..
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   512 Apr  5 11:07 dev/
> ..
> 
> The user that amindexd runs as (from inetd.conf) needs to be able to
> read/write the index directories.  Unless that user is root or in group
> wheel here, they'll not be able to chdir into /var/amanda/daily/index in
> the first place, and depending on the permissions under dev/, may not be
> able to uncompress the index files when it has to.
> 
> Change the ownerships/permissions so that the user your amandaidx runs
> under can read/write down the index tree, and you should be right.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris
> 

Aaah, foobar!!  That was it.  I'm removing myself from the wheel group for
the rest of the day ...

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Doug Silver
Network Manager
Quantified Systems, Inc
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Reply via email to