On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:42:17PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-04-12 12:27, stan wrote: > >Again, I've never done that in the past. I've just made ceratin that the > >amanda user exists, > >and done the build/make install as root. Permissions have alwasy been fine. > > > >Having sad that, I'll rebuild the whole thing today using FQDB's, and > >building as amanda, then > >installing as root. > > It is not important as who you build -- root is no problem (but > security minded sysadmins avoid doing things as root unless needed). > But the "make install" should be done as root. > > Then subsequently, you should not RUN the program as root (except > amrecover, which should be run as root), because when running the first > time, Amanda creates some files. When doing that as root - even only > once - those files are owned by root instead of the amanda user > and you run into trouble next time.
Right, we are good on that. > > > > >BTW, speaking of rebuilding amanda, it would be nice if there were a "make > >no-overwrite > >confgis" option. > > "make install" does not install, nor overwrite any config file. > No need to disable that non-existing feature. > I just foudn that out, to my pleasent suprise. In any case, I rebuilt uinsg FQDN's, and I still have these problems, An amcheck reports: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- ERROR: amanda: [Can't open exclude file '/opt/amanda/lib/gnutar_exclude_list': No such file or directory] ERROR: amanda: [could not access /dumpdisk (/dumpdisk): No such file or directory] ERROR: amanda: [could not access /data_backups (/data_backups): No such file or directory] Client check: 44 hosts checked in 9.986 seconds, 3 problems found (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.0) but: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /opt/amanda/lib/gnutar_exclude_list -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda root 0 Mar 31 21:18 /opt/amanda/lib/gnutar_exclude_list [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld /dumpdisk drwxr-xr-x 3 amanda operator 27 Apr 11 12:27 /dumpdisk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld /data_backups drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 232 Apr 12 02:01 /data_backups It helps in diagnosing this problem to remeber that this part was working _before_ I messed with /etc/hosts on the Amada machine. I'm totaly confused at this point in time, what should I do to further diagnose this problem? Oh, and thnks for all the help! -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
