On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Jeremy Hansen wrote: > > This is what I have in disklist > > > > srv1.methanesea.com /home/drew hard-disk-dump > > > > This is my problem: > ... > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > > -------------------------------- > > ERROR: srv1.methanesea.com: [could not access /home/drew (/home/drew): > > Permission denied] > > Client check: 1 host checked in 0.018 seconds, 1 problem found > > > > (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3) > > > > Where am I getting the permissions problem? > > It's always educational to have a look in the debug > files /tmp/amanda/*.timestamp.debug and see the program > that generated this errormessage. > > > Is there something that needs to be suid in there? > > rundump and runtar are both suid root (but I believe their effectiveness > is not tested with amcheck, I should take a look in the source code > for that.) > > Seeing your dumptype "hard-disk-dump", are you using dump and not > of gnutar? And seeing the directory "/home/drew", is this a mountpoint > or is this a subdirectory of a mount point? That's because dump does > not work on subdirectories; but in that case the message would be > "disk offline?" or such.
Hmm, actually /home/drew is a subdirectory. What you say makes sense and I shouldn't be using dump. How do I change this to use tar? I just changed it to hard-disk-tar and amcheck came out with no problems. I think this was it. Thanks -jeremy > But if it is a mount point and you are using dump, is amanda in the > group that can read the /dev/xxx file? (usually "disk" on Linux) > > >
