* Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:01:28:11:08:19-0500] scribed: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:52:41AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: <snip />
> > Ironically, I do _not_ need any exclude file for this DLE. Initially, I > > did not have any exclude file, and amcheck issued the _same_ error. > > Then, I touched an empty exclude file, resulting in the same error. For > > my original post, I included two temporary directories in the exclude > > file. > > > > Regarding perms: > > > > # ls -adl /usr > > drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Oct 6 14:15 /usr > > > > # ls -adl /usr/local/home > > drwxrwsr-x 7 root staff 4096 Jan 16 21:17 /usr/local/home > > > > # ls -adl /usr/local/home/mds > > drwxr-xr-x 44 mds mds 8192 Jan 28 09:07 /usr/local/home/mds > > > > # ls -adl /usr/local/home/mds/mail > > drwx------ 19 mds mds 4096 Jan 28 01:00 /usr/local/home/mds/mail > ^^^^^^ > > When amcheck looks for the exclude file, unless it is running with root privleges > or as mds, it will not be able to visit this directory. During the amcheck run > your host is both server and client. When amcheck goes out to the client, it loses > its root privleges and runs as the amanda user. For this one you may need to > put the exclude file somewhere else the amanda user can visit and specify an > absolute directory path to the file. OK, now it makes sense to me -- mostly. I have reviewed my permission requirements, and I can live with this: # ls -adl /usr/local/home/mds/mail drwxr-xr-x 19 mds mds 4096 Jan 28 10:29 /usr/local/home/mds/mail This allows amcheck to run _without_ errors, even _without_ /usr/local/home/mds/mail/.amanda.excludes , which is what I wanted. Nonetheless, I remain confused, since conf uses: exclude list optional ".amanda.excludes" So, even though it is `optional', amcheck *must* have permissions adequate to see whether or not the `optional' file exists? Would that condition impact the actual backup itself? Or, since it runs as superuser, it would have access to the exclude file, and everything would be OK? Am I getting closer to understanding this? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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