try restarting nfs and try mounting again from the client. hopfully this should work.
vijay On Friday 27 September 2002 07:26 pm, you wrote: > no_root_squash doesn't seem to work. Should the machine be re-booted > for the change to take effect? Your help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Ashwin. > > Frank Smith wrote: > > --On Friday, September 20, 2002 11:43:51 -0400 Ashwin Bijur > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We use amanda 2.4.2p2 on Red Hat Linux 7.3. We have nfs mounted a > >> directory on the amanda server called /xtreme23/scratch. Some of the > >> subdirectories and files under the scratch directory have permission > >> 600. The /etc/exports file on the xtreme23 > >> machine has the scratch directory exported with read and write > >> permissions (/scratch *(rw)). When we run amanda, we get an error > >> message saying "Permission Denied" for these files. Now as > >> user=amanda and group=disk, we should be able to backup these > >> files. What are we doing wrong? > > > > I'm assuming you are using tar (since I don't think you can use dump > > on an NFS mount). Amanda uses the runtar wrapper script, which is > > suid root so that tar can run as root (since tar accesses via the > > filesystem it has to run as root to access all the files). > > Most OS's map NFS access requests from UID 0 (root) to nobody > > or some other non-root user for security reasons. You probably > > need to change your export options on xtreme23 to include the > > no_root_squash option (or whatever its called on the NFS server's > > OS) for the export to the Amanda server so that root on the Amanda > > server has root access to /xtreme23/scratch, so tar can see all of > > the files. > > > > Frank > > > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Ashwin Bijur > >> Assistant Systems Administrator. > > > > -- > > Frank Smith > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Systems Administrator Voice: > > 512-374-4673 > > Hoover's Online Fax: > > 512-374-4501
