Hi, Frank, and everyone else. > > My guess is that the permission problem is higher up. Try > su - amanda > and then try to cd down the directory structure. The index, > pip, and _users5 directories should be created automatically > during the backup run. As the amanda user, see if you can > create a file in /home/amanda/DailySet1/.
Yep, no problem. > If not, verify that > amanda owns /home/amanda/ and everything below it. I did a chown -R amanda:disk on /home/amanda early on. amanda owns everything. > If /home/amanda is mounted from a remote server, make sure > amanda can write to it. It's not. It's local. > Chances are you set it up as root and some or all of the > files and directories are still owned by root with hostile > permissions. That was the first thing that came to my mind. I'm going to redo everything from scratch today and see if things turn out better. Regards, Caitems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 > Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
