-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 14.12.2005 at 16:17 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Dave Ewart wrote: > >I've just added a few entries to my disklist and am getting errors like > >the following, during amcheck: > > > > ERROR: athena: [could not access /srv/samba/netlogon > > (/srv/samba/netlogon): Permission denied] > > > >Why is this directory not visible to the AMANDA process, given that the > >AMANDA user is part of group 'disk' and that should give it access to > >those partitions? The '/root/' partition is only (technically) visible > >to the root user, yet AMANDA is able to correctly back this up. > > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Why_does_amcheck_fail_while_amdump_succeeds_%3F > > The good news is that amdump will probably work fine. > > The fact that amanda is part of group disk has no effect here: > you're doing backups of subdirectories, and thus cannot use dump, but > must use gnutar (Dump can only work on whole partitions, not on > subdirectories, at least when doing incrementals.) > > For running dumpa and accessing the device-partitions, amanda needs to > be member of the disk-group, but for running gnutar, amanda actually > needs root priviledges, which she gets by invoking gnutar with a suid > root program, which is not used by amcheck. (Note amcheck just sends a > message to amandad on the client, and it's amandad on the client that > does the check; hence making amcheck suid-root does not help either.) Ah, understood, very helpful Paul. That explains the situation sufficiently for me to be able to work around it. Thanks, Dave. - -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit Cancer Research UK / Oxford University PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac-uk.asc N 51.7518, W 1.2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDoEHCbpQs/WlN43ARAnN9AJ92UXOBw630FlSImG9C3fJpHhv2+ACgy4mi yACzRR4yhXZxUooRO9dOk98= =cho+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
