On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 at 10:29am, Morrison, Trevor (Trevor) wrote Two things:
1) Please keep amanda-users on the CC list, so that all can help out and so that it's in the archives 2) Please use some carriage returns -- I see your text as one big line. (checks headers) Ah, M$ware -- I'm so sorry. Maybe exchange is futzing with things along the way... 3) Please respond below quoted text. Oops, that was 3... :) > when I configured amanda I used the --with-user=amanda > --with-group=amanda, so I am running amandad as user amanda. I did not > use the --wtih-tmpdir=/tmp option. I copied the entry for POP# when I > created the xinetd file called amanda use amanda as the user. Would > amdump even execute if the user was not correct? Also, I noticed that > I had to give 751 permission on any directory that I wanted to back up. AIIEEEE! You should *not* have to do this. > I tried adding amanda to the disk group and the root group, but to no > avail. I really do not fully understand the permissions that amanda > requires. I thought by adding amanda to the respective groups that own > the directories that that would be fine. Could you straighten me out on > this. TIA. To have xinetd run the program with *all* groups the user belongs to, you need a "groups=yes" line in the appropriate service file (i.e. /etc/xinetd.d/amanda). Also, certain bits of amanda should be installed setuid root. What does 'ls -l /usr/local/libexec | grep rws' say? This allows amanda to be root to backup stuff via tar. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
