Am Sonntag, 25. Dezember 2005 23:57 schrieb Jon LaBadie: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:04:30PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I set up amanda to backup some of my workstations. Now I encountered some > > strange issue: On one workstation amanda can backup /home but not /. The > > permissions in /dev are the same. The user amanda is in the disk group. > > What backup program are you using. For tar the device permissions should > not matter. For dump they do.
I have the option "program "GNUTAR" set. > > Are the entries in /dev symlinks to some other file, the actual device? > On some OSs they are. Does "ls -lL" (both lower and upper 'ell') of the > devices give the same results as "ls -l"? Both ls's on the /dev/hda device and on the / directory show the same output. Thanks for the hint but it didn't work out. Regards, Thomas -- ***************************************************************** * Thomas Widhalm Unix Administrator * * University of Salzburg IT- Services (ITS) * * Systems Management Unix Systems * * Hellbrunnerstr. 34 5020 Salzburg, Austria * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] +43/662/8044-6774 * * gpg: 6265BAE6 * * http://www.sbg.ac.at/zid/organisation/mitarbeiter/widhalm.htm * *****************************************************************
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