I also have amanda (1:3.3.1-4) on Debian 7.8, wheezy. Everything below is about my installation.
When I moved from Redhat to Debian (back in the late Pliocene) I went the Debian Way. It's easier. On Tue, 19 May 2015 11:42:18 -0400 Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > I did update it to run as backup. Progress but no perms to create > the /var/log/amanda/amandad/amandad.date.dbg file. /var/log/amanda/ and everything below it are owned by backup:backup. > > Then I chown -R the ownership of the whole amanda tree to backup:disk > and that gives this error now: > 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 > > 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. For reasons that escape me, the home directory of user backup is used by some other programs. It looks like so: root@dzur:/crc/backs/myob/amanda# ll -tr /var/backups/ total 7588 -rw-r--r-- 1 backup backup 23 Jan 5 2013 .profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 5 2013 .amandahosts -> /etc/amandahosts drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 May 22 2013 .ssh/ -rw------- 1 backup backup 50 May 22 2013 .Xauthority drwxr-xr-x 2 backup backup 4096 Jul 31 2013 bin/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3582926 Dec 13 19:06 aptitude.pkgstates.0 drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Dec 14 07:40 ../ -rw------- 1 root shadow 795 Feb 14 17:25 gshadow.bak -rw------- 1 root shadow 1241 Feb 14 17:25 shadow.bak -rw------- 1 root root 1825 Feb 14 17:25 passwd.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7776 Mar 1 08:40 apt.extended_states.6.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7849 Mar 5 12:15 apt.extended_states.5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7857 Mar 11 10:03 apt.extended_states.4.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7861 Mar 12 08:22 apt.extended_states.3.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7866 Apr 14 07:50 apt.extended_states.2.gz -rw------- 1 root root 962 Apr 16 18:17 group.bak -rw------- 1 backup backup 10639 Apr 18 15:50 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 418670 Apr 24 13:07 dpkg.status.6.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7884 Apr 24 13:07 apt.extended_states.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 418660 Apr 25 09:38 dpkg.status.5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 418742 Apr 28 09:48 dpkg.status.4.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 418742 May 1 14:52 dpkg.status.3.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74120 May 5 14:19 apt.extended_states.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419693 May 5 14:20 dpkg.status.2.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419687 May 10 08:13 dpkg.status.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1471687 May 15 08:35 dpkg.status.0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 16 04:35 ./ root@dzur:/crc/backs/myob/amanda# Also, backup:backup owns /etc/amandahosts I seem to recall that you are using vtapes. backup:backup also owns my vtape directory -- The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. -- U.S. Const. Amendment IV Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
