Re: new linux client install

2006-04-27 Thread John Clement
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Paul Bijnens schrieb: I think I see the light... :-) The /tmp/amanda directory is owned by the wrong user! or is not writable by the amanda-user, yes ... I saw that light also ;-) Let's see if it gets through now ... Stefan OK, yes it did get rather co

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Paul Bijnens schrieb: > I think I see the light... :-) > The /tmp/amanda directory is owned by the wrong user! or is not writable by the amanda-user, yes ... I saw that light also ;-) Let's see if it gets through now ... Stefan

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-26 17:58, John Clement wrote: OK, I've re-added orinoco amandabackup orinoco.deanst.rroom.net amandabackup to the .amandahosts file, I'm sorry to tell you the bad news that this is again WRONG. on orinoco (the server) it runs as 'amanda', on the client it runs as 'amanda

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-26 17:23, John Clement wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 15:59, John Clement wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 12:03, John Clement wrote: /, /var, /lib, /var/lib/amanda are all readable. To be complete, they should also be executable. Just made that change. Do y

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread John Clement
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: John Clement schrieb: Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 15:59, John Clement wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 12:03, John Clement wrote: /, /var, /lib, /var/lib/amanda are all readable. To be complete, th

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
John Clement schrieb: > Paul Bijnens wrote: >> On 2006-04-26 15:59, John Clement wrote: >>> Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 12:03, John Clement wrote: >>> /, /var, /lib, /var/lib/amanda are all readable. To be complete, they should also be executable. >>> Just made that ch

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread John Clement
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: John Clement schrieb: OK guys, 'amanad' was my typo copying the message into the email, here's .amandahosts Expected this, yes ... orinoco.deanst.rroom.netamanda orinoco amanda and amcheck WARNING: murray.deanst.rroom.net: selfcheck r

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread John Clement
Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 15:59, John Clement wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 12:03, John Clement wrote: /, /var, /lib, /var/lib/amanda are all readable. To be complete, they should also be executable. Just made that change. Do you mean that one of the directories were n

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
John Clement schrieb: > OK guys, 'amanad' was my typo copying the message into the email, here's > .amandahosts Expected this, yes ... > orinoco.deanst.rroom.netamanda > orinoco amanda > > and amcheck > > WARNING: murray.deanst.rroom.net: selfcheck request timed out. Host down

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread John Clement
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: John Clement schrieb: Paul Bijnens wrote: Is there a debugfile created (/tmp/amanda/amandad.*.debug)? What is in it? Since changing the user in xinetd to 'amandabackup' there haven't been any debug files. I checked by putting 'amanda' back in there

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-26 15:59, John Clement wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 12:03, John Clement wrote: /, /var, /lib, /var/lib/amanda are all readable. To be complete, they should also be executable. Just made that change. Do you mean that one of the directories were not executable before,

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
John Clement schrieb: > Paul Bijnens wrote: >> Is there a debugfile created (/tmp/amanda/amandad.*.debug)? >> What is in it? >> > Since changing the user in xinetd to 'amandabackup' there haven't been > any debug files. I checked by putting 'amanda' back in there and > restarting xinetd and I did

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread John Clement
Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 12:03, John Clement wrote: -rw--- 1 amandabackup disk 109 Apr 25 14:23 .amandahosts /, /var, /lib, /var/lib/amanda are all readable. To be complete, they should also be executable. Just made that change. Oh yea, restarting xinetd, probably a good

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread John Clement
Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 12:03, John Clement wrote: -rw--- 1 amandabackup disk 109 Apr 25 14:23 .amandahosts /, /var, /lib, /var/lib/amanda are all readable. To be complete, they should also be executable. Just made that change. Oh yea, restarting xinetd, probably a good

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-26 12:03, John Clement wrote: -rw--- 1 amandabackup disk 109 Apr 25 14:23 .amandahosts /, /var, /lib, /var/lib/amanda are all readable. To be complete, they should also be executable. Oh yea, restarting xinetd, probably a good idea! Output from amcheck now: WARNING: mu

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread John Clement
Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 11:17, John Clement wrote: ERROR: NAK murray.deanst.rroom.net: access as amandabackup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: cannot open /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: Permission denied Any more suggestions? - thanks What about leaving the Amanda set up alone

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-26 11:17, John Clement wrote: ERROR: NAK murray.deanst.rroom.net: access as amandabackup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: cannot open /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: Permission denied Any more suggestions? - thanks What about leaving the Amanda set up alone for while, and just t

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread John Clement
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: John Clement schrieb: OK, the story continues, thanks to all those who've contributed so far!! Here's how things are now after all your comments. The client is a new install of 2.5, server is 2.4.4p3 -rw--- 1 amandabackup disk 109 Apr 25 14:23 .amandahos

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
John Clement schrieb: > OK, the story continues, thanks to all those who've contributed so > far!! Here's how things are now after all your comments. The client is > a new install of 2.5, server is 2.4.4p3 > > -rw--- 1 amandabackup disk 109 Apr 25 14:23 .amandahosts > > /, /var, /lib, /

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread John Clement
Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-26 10:12, John Clement wrote: Pavel Pragin wrote: John Clement wrote: Having read through some of the documentation it seemed a fairly straight forward thing to install an Amanda client. However, I used an rpm for it, having been forced to upgrade my tar softw

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-26 10:12, John Clement wrote: Pavel Pragin wrote: John Clement wrote: Having read through some of the documentation it seemed a fairly straight forward thing to install an Amanda client. However, I used an rpm for it, having been forced to upgrade my tar software too but it appea

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-26 Thread John Clement
Pavel Pragin wrote: John Clement wrote: Having read through some of the documentation it seemed a fairly straight forward thing to install an Amanda client. However, I used an rpm for it, having been forced to upgrade my tar software too but it appears to be running as amandabackup and in /v

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-25 Thread Kevin Till
John Clement wrote: Having read through some of the documentation it seemed a fairly straight forward thing to install an Amanda client. However, I used an rpm for it, having been forced to upgrade my tar software too but it appears to be running as amandabackup and in /var/lib... So I'm now

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-25 16:35, John Clement wrote: Having read through some of the documentation it seemed a fairly straight forward thing to install an Amanda client. However, I used an rpm for it, having been forced to upgrade my tar software too but it appears to be running as amandabackup and in /va

Re: new linux client install

2006-04-25 Thread Pavel Pragin
John Clement wrote: Having read through some of the documentation it seemed a fairly straight forward thing to install an Amanda client. However, I used an rpm for it, having been forced to upgrade my tar software too but it appears to be running as amandabackup and in /var/lib... So I'm no

new linux client install

2006-04-25 Thread John Clement
Having read through some of the documentation it seemed a fairly straight forward thing to install an Amanda client. However, I used an rpm for it, having been forced to upgrade my tar software too but it appears to be running as amandabackup and in /var/lib... So I'm now getting the followin