On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:15, Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote: >> I know nothing of LVM, but I think it should still work. What >> backup tool are you using (dump or tar)? If tar, amanda runs it >> via the setuid root 'runtar' wrapper, so tar will run as root. >> amcheck may well fail, IIRC, but amdump should actually work. > >I'm using dump. Basically it fails while trying to do the estimate. >But if it can't do the estimate, I doubt it would be able to backup. > Warning, personal opinion. Dump is a poor choice. Either tar-1.13-19 or tar-1.13-25 has many more bells and whistles than dump has. The majority of amanda features have been designed around using tar.
>But I really would like to fix the main problem which is that udev > is not creating the permission of logical volumes correctly. If amanda was built by the unpriviledged user (amanda is a good choice) but installed by root, the perms should be just fine. If not, then file a bug against udev. Greg K-H is actively working on it. >I did put a bug in bugzilla for Fedoara for this, but who knows when >someone might get to it. It really is not a fedora bug, but a udev problem, tell Greg on the lkml. udev is having some 'teething' pains it seems. Just one of the reasons I've only updated one machine to FC3. >I know that this is not specific to amanda,but since amanda is the > only app giving me problems with this, I thought others might have > also had the same problems and found a solution to it. > >Regards, >Mike -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.30% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
