On Wednesday 12 April 2006 08:42, stan wrote: >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)
These look like legit errors. Do these locations and file exist? >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 Wrong ownership maybe? I use amanda:disk for such things here. -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 27 Jun 2 2005 excludes >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld /dumpdisk >drwxr-xr-x 3 amanda operator 27 Apr 11 12:27 /dumpdisk drwxr-xr-x 2 amanda disk 4096 Apr 12 02:56 /dumps >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld /data_backups >drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 232 Apr 12 02:01 /data_backups drwxr-xr-x 4 amanda disk 4096 Dec 6 2004 /amandatapes and every subdir and file in this tree is owned by amanda:disk I'd be more interested in an ls -lR on the above dir. But that will be bulky. >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! NP, If I can help. -- 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 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
