Hi Jim, You needed 'groups=yes' in your xinetd config.
Jean-Louis On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:05:33PM -0600, Jim Summers wrote: > First I would thank the list for all suggestions regarding the amrecover > problem I was experiencing. As it turns out the problem was a > permissions issue as noted in the debug file of amidxtaped. But why is > still a mystery. > > Initially I was getting a permission denied on the tape device. One > suggestion was to add the group =, to the (x)inetd entry for > amidxtaped. Although that did not actually fix the problem it did > change the error message in the debug file. After that change I was > getting a permission denied on the log file for that session. Which the > fix was to set the proper group, in my case disk, for the logs > directory. After that the amrecover session went fine. > > In my installation the amanda user is bin. Which bin belongs to the bin > group and also disk group among others. I had set the log directory to > owner root and group bin. Which worked fine for amdump and other amanda > utilities. So at this point I am not sure why amrecover forced the > issue of group = disk, while the other utilities cruise right along and > can write to directories / files with the group = bin. > > I think on my next install I will go with the recommended user=amanda > and then place that user in one group such as disk and then stay > consistent across all the directories involved. > > Thanks again > -- > Jim Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > University of Oklahoma - Computer Science -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D�partement IRO, Universit� de Montr�al C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montr�al, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
