On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:32:28AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > I posted to the web -- but I don't know that it will find its > way back to amanda-users. Besides, the thread was 2 years old... > but its come back to haunt me. > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:04:49AM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Amanda is successfully running on our Solaris Servers. But on Amanda's > > > report (the E-mail it sends after amdump) I get the following STRANGE > > > message: > > > > > > ? Unable to create temporary directory in any of the directories listed > > > below: > > > ? /tmp/ > > > ? /var/tmp/ > > > ? / > > > > > > But when I manually accessed the server as Amanda user - I had no problem > > > creating a folder under /tmp as well as /var/tmp/ ! > > > > > > Any thoughts why am I getting this message? > > > Additionally, can somebody tell me what files does Amada writes under /tmp > > > folder? > > > > I replied to your earlier post on this topic but I don't see my response > > in my archive of the list. > > > > That message is not coming from amanda directly, but coming from ufsdump. > > > > Now the question is why ufsdump, running for amanda, can't deal with those > > directories. I only had one possibility and have little confidence in it. > > > > On my system /usr/sbin/ufsdump is a symbolic link to > > /usr/lib/fs/ufs/ufsdump. > > The latter program is root-owned, set-uid. Perhaps yours has been altered. > > > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/fs/ufs/ufsdump > > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 83820 Apr 12 2004 /usr/lib/fs/ufs/ufsdump > > Jon, > > I was looking at these errors again and it occured to me that > they might be from the 2.4.4 version of senddump, rather than > ufsdump. I have several systems giving this warning and they are > all at 2.4.4, I think perhaps the error is benign and result > from the /tmp/amanda directory already existing and the mkdir > failing. > > I'd love to know for sure as we are reviewing our reports a little > differently now and I'd like to classify and either fix or ignore > these warnings. >
I said the message came from ufsdump based on checking with strings to see in which binary it was located. It is in ufsdump, not one of the amanda programs. I would not expect ufsdump to try to create /tmp/amanda. That would be done by one of the amanda binaries. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
