This was it! I set the permissions to /dev/root the right way and it works. I just got find out, how the ruleset of udev works, because it seems not so trivial than it looked at first place.
THANKS A LOT! Regards, Thomas On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 09:46 -0700, Broderick Wood wrote: > One of the problems on the NEW versions of Linux is this whole /etc/udev/... > stuff. > > At reboot it rewrites the permissions on /dev/root as root RW only. > > SO unless your client is running as root it will fail. > > You can edit the appropriate file under /etc/udev/........... to make root > be RW to a particular group as well. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:04 AM > Subject: Re: still permision denied > > > > On Monday 23 January 2006 06:10, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > >>Here is the error message of amcheck: > >> > >>############################### > >>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > >>-------------------------------- > >>ERROR: praxis.plus.sbg.ac.at: [could not access /dev/root (/): > >>Permission denied] > >>ERROR: ralph.edvz.sbg.ac.at: [could not access /dev/root (/): > >> Permission denied] > >>Client check: 3 hosts checked in 0.241 seconds, 2 problems found > >>############################### > > > > Please describe to this list, exactly how you installed amanda. If from > > tarball, every step to the final "make install". > > > >>and now the fstab entry in one of the machines: > >>############################### > >>LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults > >>1 1 > >>############################### > >> > >>I used to use GNUTAR. I recognized, that there are 2 instances of tar > >>installed on these systems! So I switched to DUMP, but it didn't work > >>out. > >> > >>Regards, > >>Thomas > > > > -- > > Cheers, Gene > > People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word > > 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's > > stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) > > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > > message by Gene Heskett are: > > Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > > -- ***************************************************************** * Thomas Widhalm Unix Administrator * * University of Salzburg ITServices (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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