amandas group membership in FC6?
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Nov 25 12:58:56 UTC 2006
Greetings;
Despite the fact that the user 'amanda' is a member of the group 'disk',
all compilations and new files generated by the user amanda seem to be
owned by amanda:amanda instead of the expected amanda:disk.
The end result is that many of my backup operations are failing because
the amanda utility doesn't have perms to delete or write to files
actually owned by amanda:disk.
I just went thru all the directory trees amanda needs to access and
chowned everything back the way its supposed to be, but then I built the
20061124 tarball just now, and everything is still owned by
amanda:amanda.
>From my /etc/group file:
disk:x:6:root,amanda
So I blew it away, called up KUsr and verified that amanda was indeed a
member of the group disk. Even deleted the user and re-added it and made
sure this new copy of amanda was a member of the group disk.
Then as "amanda", I unpacked it again and rebuilt it, but I still have the
same problem. Because none of the files are owned by amanda:disk, the
end result is several megs of dead, can't do a thing code that I'd just
as well not bother with the 'make install'.
Anything that amanda has touched over the last 4 days since I started
running it again has been converted to being owned by amanda:amanda, and
if the file existed, and was to be deleted as part of the housekeeping,
was not because the old file was owned by amanda:disk. So my backups are
being slowly trashed because the indice files are not updatable.
Whats the deal with FC6 and its owner:group handling? Am I setting up the
user wrong or what?
--
Cheers, Gene
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