Re: amcheck fails

[Michael Hannon]

Greetings.  I'm still smarting from a large bullet wound in my foot, and I 
thought it might have some bearing on the problem with amcheck.

I installed Amanda by compiling from source on a linux box.  I hadn't done 
this in a while, and I absent-mindedly made a directory:

        /tmp/amanda

on this system, copied the tar ball into it, unpacked, did the configure, 
make, make install, etc., all without any obvious problem.

But then I also observed the persistent symptom that amcheck of that system 
always failed.  [...much pointless thrashing omitted...]  It finally dawned 
on me that the directory that I had created, /tmp/amanda, belonged to root 
and could not be written by the amanda user.  I simply renamed the 
directory, and all was fine after that.

                                        - Mike

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Dept. of Physics          530.752.4966
University of California  530.752.4717 FAX
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