On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:30:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:28:32 am Brian Cuttler did opine: > > > Gunnar, > > > > Hum, we had /tmp file create issues too... I never did figure out > > why and assumed something anomalous on our system. It was an old > > system, old enough that it was 5 years EOL and off the HW contract. > > > > I don't recall which user ran amanda for us, likely 'bin' and it > > was an older version. I'd forgotten about those errors... they > > didn't seem to make any long term difference and our backups ran ok. > > > I have always had to mkdir those directories, then chown them to the amanda > user. Without them, you have no ability to trace a problem as there may > not be any logs.
We dumped using normal, mounted DLE on that system as well, so we had logs and the directories existed without manual intervention. This is why I found the error message to odd, it was a complaint about an issue we didn't seem to actually have. > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > My mother wants grandchildren, so I said, "Mom, go for it!" > -- Sue Murphy --- Brian R Cuttler [email protected] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
