To confirm bin does have read access I did a dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 of=/tmp/foobar bs=512 count=1
as bin and it did not complain as it would if bin did not have read access. On 8 Apr 2002, at 9:08, Don Potter wrote: > Does bin have read access on the raw devices /dev/rdsk (or /dev/vx/)?????? > > Toomas Aas wrote: > > >Hi David! > > > >On 8 Apr 02 at 10:57 you wrote: > > > >>I've just upgraded from 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.3b3, at the same time I've changed my > >>amanda user from root to bin. I notice when I get the report at the end of a > >>level 0 backup. It has backed up nowhere near all the data that exists. > >> > >>For example: > >> > >>/export/home/staff > >> > >>has 11.8GB but is only backing up 235MB. Now when I do a du -sk > >>/export/home/staff as user bin it reports (Guess what) 235MB. > >> > > > >I don't know about Solaris but in FreeBSD the user that Amanda runs as > >needs to have read access to disk devices (in my casem, a subset of > >/dev/da0s* and /dev/da1s*) > >-- > >Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > >* No problem is so big that it can't be run away from. > > > > ----------------------------------------- David Flood Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0)1224 262721 The Robert Gordon University School of Computing St. Andrews Street Aberdeen -----------------------------------------
