[Techtalk] Weird permissions problem running amanda

[Nils Philippsen]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:15, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
> 
> OK, I admit it.  amanda is kicking my you-know-what.
> 
> amdump is failing because it's unable to write it's index files.  Why? 
> >From the errors it looks like a permissions problem, but the directory
> is owned by amanda and right now I've got everything opened up to chmod
> 777.  There error messages I'm getting look like:
> 
> pip        /users5 lev 0 FAILED [err create
> /home/amanda/DailySet1/index/pip/_users5/20020919_0.gz.tmp: Permission
> denied]
> 

Have you checked the ownership/permission on every directory above that
(/home/amanda/DailySet1/index/pip/_users5,
/home/amanda/DailySet1/index/pip, /home/amanda/DailySet1/index, ...)?

Nils
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