On Thursday 19 September 2002 17:15, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: >Hi, everyone, > >OK, I admit it. amanda is kicking my you-know-what. > >amdump is failing because it's unable to write it's index files. > Why? From the errors it looks like a permissions problem, but the > directory is owned by amanda and right now I've got everything > opened up to chmod 777. There error messages I'm getting look > like: > >pip /users5 lev 0 FAILED [err create >/home/amanda/DailySet1/index/pip/_users5/20020919_0.gz.tmp: > Permission denied] > >This is amanda 2.4.2p2 running on Red Hat 7.3.94 (null/RH8 beta). > >OK, I'm still doing something simple and stupid wrong. Any clues > what that might be? > >Thanks, >Caity
The only thing that comes to mind quickly is probably related to the question/statement "you do have a user amanda, who is a member of group disk, don't you?" -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.15% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
