On Saturday 25 May 2019 03:25:22 pm Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 05:26:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I went back to salsa, and searched for amanda, and finally found a > > gfx button that would download the amanda-master tarball. > > (Of course the "upstream" Amanda code found on Salsa originally comes > from the Zmanda sources, but it's not up-to-date v.s. any post-release > commits found in the Zmanda GitHub repo, and in general I think you > will likely end up causing confusion for yourself by trying to build > from Salsa.) > > > Running my gh.cf configure script after changing the group from disk > > to backup it appears I need to add at least 2 more options to my > > script. > > > > 1. I need to shut off and and all attempts to use ipv6, I am at > > least 100 miles from any ipv6 services here, so how do I pass that > > to ./configure? > > Why do you think you need to turn off IPv6 in Amanda? Modern distros > such as Strech will have IPv6 configured out of the box, and all the > standard packages will be build with that assumption. It doesn't hurt > anything for Amanda to have IPv6 support enabled; if your ISP (and > your local network configuration) doesn't support it, it just won't > actually be used at run time.... > Amanda may well work that way, but if the networking event gets a faint whiff of ipv6, it won't assign a route to the ipv4 setup. local host work fine, a dns lookuo is stuck in your shirt pocket and the network hardware is wasting power doing zip.
> On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 06:38:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Some progress, and some messages I don't understand. I've fixed all > > the ownership problems I can, but if its looking in the wrong place > > and not finding the file, the complaint should not be that the file > > isn't owned by root. > > > > > > Last pass at trying to run amcheck: > > backup@coyote:/home/amanda/amanda-master$ /usr/local/sbin/amcheck > > Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check > > ----------------------------- > > ERROR: holding disk '/usr/dumps': not writable: Permission denied > > check permissions > > Holding disk is configured in your amanda.conf file (. (Is > "/usr/dumps" what you intended to use for that?) > > > ERROR: log dir '/usr/local/var/amanda/Daily' (Permission denied): > > not writable > > This is set by the "logdir" in your amanda.conf file. If that is the > path you want it to use, what do > # ls -ld /usr/local/var/amanda/Daily > and > # ls -l /usr/local/var/amanda/Daily | tail > show? > > > Can't locate JSON.pm in @INC (you may need to install the JSON > > module) (@INC > > Seems like you need to install the "libjson-perl" package. > Done. Searching for JSON.pm was fruitless. So much for compiler error messages meaning what they say... I did install some cousins earlier but that was no help. This actully installed 4 pkgs. > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > > -------------------------------- > > ERROR: coyote: selfcheck request failed: > > file/dir '/usr/local/etc/amanda-security.conf' > > (/usr/local/etc/amanda-security.conf) is not owned by root > > ERROR: shop: selfcheck request failed: > > file/dir '/usr/local/etc/amanda-security.conf' > > (/usr/local/etc/amanda-security.conf) is not owned by root > > I'm not immediately finding the discussion in the archives, but If I > remember correctly from some earlier discussion on this topic, the > confusing thing about this message is that it's run once per client > machine, but it's actually checking the amanda-security.conf file on > the server. > I don't think so, as earlier today I was getting rid of some of the error messages by editing the client files. But 2 clients didn't even have it, so you could well be right. And there is 2 copies on this, the server. May. or may not be identical. So I just nuked the one not named. > In any case, what does > # ls -l /usr/local/etc/amanda-security.conf > (on your server) show? rw-r--r-- 1 gene staff 1986 Oct 31 2018 /usr/local/etc/amanda-security.conf And its 100% comments. What is it supposed to contain? If the comments are correct, I expect I can fix it. > > Nathan Thanks Nathan. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >------ Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic > region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - > http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: > http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key > fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
