Now that I have this setuid issue resolved running amdump_client
{list,check} is successful on the client. "amdump_client dump: appears
to be successful but nothing is backed up and the report I'm emailed
says "planner: FATAL no DLE to backup" but I don't know what's causing
that.There is the following warning in the client-side log, but I'm not sure if it's related. amdump_client: warning: Argument "DISK /var added\n" isn't numeric in numeric ne (!=) at /usr/sbin/amdump_client line 101, <GEN2> line 4. -- Later, Darin On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]> wrote: > Darin, > > The 'amservice' binary must set suid root. > > Jean-Louis > > > On 04/17/2012 03:43 PM, Darin Perusich wrote: >> >> Is there any documentation on using amdump_client? Nothing comes up >> when searching the wiki other than mentions in release notes and the >> man page isn't proving very helpful. >> >> I've configured amdumpd on the server, per >> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amdumpd_protocol, and added my client >> to .amandahosts on the server so it can connect. Whenever I run >> amdump_client from the client as amanda, see amanda-client.conf below, >> it fails with permission denied when attempting to bind to the local >> ports, which are under 1024. Yet, when i try and run the program as >> root it fails because I'm not amanda. >> >> I'm stuck in a loop, what am I missing? > >
