Peter Did you configure amanda with the --with-user=operator config option?
If not that's prob the issue. -- Martin Peter Seebach wrote: > I'm trying to set Amanda up on a redhat system. I'm using an account > "operator", which I moved into group "disk", the group listed as having r/w > access to the disk devices. > > If I run: > su operator -c "amcheck config" > I get a slew of "/dev/sda?: permission denied" messages. > > If I do: > su - operator > $ dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/null bs=1k count=1 > it works fine. So, I have permission to read the disk. > > What am I doing wrong? > > -s >
