Quoting Andreas Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Eric Siegerman wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Andreas Sundstrom wrote: > > > >> --with-user=root \ > >> --with-group=root > > > > > > A stab in the dark here: these settings seem a bit suspicious. > > Normally one doesn't run Amanda as root; it's able to get root > > privilege when it needs it (that's what the little runtar and > > rundump programs are for). I don't know anything about > > 2.6-series kernels, but maybe some change snuck in that > > interferes with Amanda trying to run as root. > > > > Even if that turns out not to be the source of your 2.6.6 > > problem, for security reasons I'd suggest running Amanda as some > > other user. > > I'll give it a shot, I have actually ment to do that anyway, but since > everything has worked flawlessly I didn't bother. But I guess you never > can have to much security anyways. > > /Andreas > >
Well, now I have created a user named amanda which has default group membership disk and is also a member of users. Then I recompiled with user=amanda, group=disk and installed. I had som trouble to get it working but I eventually found out that when run with xinetd this statement is needed "groups = yes". All went well and the backup finished successful. Then I switched to my identically compiled 2.6.6-rc2 kernel and it fails with the same error as earlier: These dumps were to tape dflt10. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: dflt11. The next new tape already labelled is: dflt12. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: zappa.zapp /imagelib lev 1 FAILED [bad CONNECT response] zappa.zapp /boot lev 0 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] zappa.zapp /home/sunkan lev 1 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] zappa.zapp /var lev 1 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] zappa.zapp / lev 0 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] zappa.zapp /home/emelie lev 0 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] zappa.zapp /apps lev 0 FAILED [bad CONNECT response] So I tarred up the /tmp/amanda dir and put it at ftp://zappa.cx/pub/amanda-zappa.cx.tar.gz if anyone wants to take a look at it. This is the complete failed session and nothing else. Thanks for the help and pointers so far everyone. /Andreas
