On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:39:11PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:16:59PM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote: > > ? Unable to create temporary directory in any of the directories listed > > below: > > [...] > > It's ufsdump saying this. The leading "?"'s are a clue -- Amanda > prepends them to messages from the dump program that it doesn't > recognize (they ultimately appear in the report message, labelled > as "strange"). I confirmed it by finding the message in the > output of "strings /usr/sbin/ufsdump". > > I don't know why it's happening. Does ufsdump run as the Amanda > user or as root? (Check the first couple of lines on one of the > sendbackup.* debug files). If the former, well, you've checked > that that should be ok. If it's root -- about the only reasons I > can think of that root couldn't create a file is if the > filesystem's mounted readonly (totally bogus for /tmp of course!) > or NFS-mounted and the permissions don't allow *world* write > (again very weird for /tmp and probably broken, but just barely > conceivable).
FS full? Probably only valid if /tmp is not a separate FS. > > -- > > | | /\ > |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | | / > It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer > wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the > drum kit around during songs. > - Patrick Lenneau > >>> End of included message <<< -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
