On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:42:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I did update it to run as backup. Progress but no perms to create
> the /var/log/amanda/amandad/amandad.date.dbg file.
>
> Then I chown -R the ownership of the whole amanda tree to backup:disk
> and that gives this error now:
Okay, progress.
> ERROR: NAK shop: user amanda from coyote.coyote.den is not allowed to
> execute the service noop: cannot open /var/backups/.amandahosts: No such
> file or directory
>
The Debian packages come with /var/backups/.amandahosts as a symlink to
the /etc/amandahosts file:
# ls -l /var/backups/.amandahosts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 15 2010 /var/backups/.amandahosts ->
/etc/amandahosts
(where "/var/backups/" comes into play because it is the home directory
of the "backup" user).
Once again, you have a choice now between sticking to the Debian way and
putting back that symlink (and then populating /etc/amandahosts
appropriately), or following more closely the setup on your other
machines with locally-compiled packages (in which case you presumably
would create a symlink pointing to /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts).
(From your earlier posting it seems that latter file already includes a
line granting permissions to the "amanda" user from coyote).
> So I renamed /var/log/amanda to /var/log/backups and back to amanda when
> that didn't work because it couldn't find .amandahosts
> in /var/log/backups, it was in /var/lib/amanda on the lathe. Still is
> on both machines.
(Do you mean "lib" instead of "log" in this paragraph? I'd guess the
.amandahosts file doesn't have anything to do with the /var/log directory tree,
even in your current hybrid configuration.... In either case, you can
see from the error message that the amanda process is looking for
/var/backups/.amandahosts , so in any case you'll need to create
something in that spot...)
Nathan
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