>I recently built and installed amanda 2.4.3b3 on FreeBSD-4.5 CURRENT.
You do understand that the 'b' in that name means this is beta test software, right? I.e. you should be prepared to help with the debugging. >AMANDA 2.4.2p3 had previously been running for a day or so with no >problems. Huh? There's no such thing as 2.4.2p3. 2.4.2p2 is the most recent stable release. >The current problem is with sendsize/selfcheck. If the machine tries to >contact itself for amcheck, I get errors in syslog about selfcheck >dumping core. ... That should be pretty easy to track down (solid, reproducible errors are my favorites :-). Look in /tmp/amanda and there should be some core files. Run a debugger on them and the program (e.g. selfcheck) and get a stack traceback. Then either post it or start digging into the code. You may also want to rebuild and make sure the compiler gets the "-g" flag. If that doesn't work, put this data (from the amandad*debug log file of the packet) in a file: OPTIONS ; GNUTAR /var/db/mysql 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;compress-fast;no-record;index;exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/excl GNUTAR /etc 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;compress-fast;no-record;index;exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/excl GNUTAR /usr/local 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;compress-fast;no-record;index;exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/excl Then run selfcheck by hand, as the Amanda user, with this file as stdin and see what happens. If it fails, do the same thing under a debugger. >2. sendsize/selfcheck/runtar/etc are setuid root. Huh? Sendsize and selfcheck are most definitly **not** supposed to be setuid root. Here's the list of what's "special": -rwsr-x--- 1 root backup 245760 Jun 28 2001 libexec/calcsize -rwsr-x--- 1 root backup 643072 Jun 28 2001 libexec/dumper -rwsr-x--- 1 root backup 221184 Jun 28 2001 libexec/killpgrp -rwsr-x--- 1 root backup 770048 Jun 28 2001 libexec/planner -rwsr-x--- 1 root backup 217088 Jun 28 2001 libexec/rundump -rwsr-x--- 1 root backup 217088 Jun 28 2001 libexec/runtar -rwsr-x--- 1 root backup 782336 Jun 28 2001 sbin/amcheck Everything else should just be owned by the Amanda user/group and normal modes. >Greg Mohney John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
