On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:13:31PM -0500, Kevin Kobb wrote: > I have loaded Amanda on our Debian 390 system and it backs up great. The > only problem I have is with permissions. I chown the /dev/dasd/0151/partx > device to root:backup, chmod 640 and it works fine. However, every time I do > a shutdown and restart, the owner is back to root:root and the mode is 600. > > Can somebody tell me if this is being done through a startup script? If so, > I haven't found it yet. On Woody for i386 the devices are owned by root:disk > out of the box, and I don't have the same problem. It wouldn't be hard to > create a script to change the perms on startup, I just like to how they are > being changed in the first place. If anybody has an answer for this, I would > appreciate hearing it.
This is being done by devfsd, configured in the file /etc/devfs/perms. -- - mdz
