From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 6:32:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B392D37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:32:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ignatius.schwartz-pr.com (ignatius.schwartz-pr.com [12.30.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC66543E91 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:32:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfiorelli@schwartz-pr.com) Received: from localhost.schwartz-pr.com (localhost.schwartz-pr.com [127.0.0.1]) by ignatius.schwartz-pr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA07EBD2; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:32:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from ignatius.schwartz-pr.com (localhost.schwartz-pr.com [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.schwartz-pr.com (VaMailArmor-2.0.1.7) id 92291-1E1251B8; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:32:41 -0500 Received: from dhcp-hst2-81.schwartz-pr.com (dhcp-hst2-81.schwartz-pr.com [12.30.3.81]) by ignatius.schwartz-pr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5B9B88; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:32:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Amanda FreeBSD: gtar must be run as operator From: Jess Fiorelli To: Toomas Aas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200210271556.g9RFuxN22357@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <200210271556.g9RFuxN22357@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 28 Oct 2002 09:19:03 -0500 Message-Id: <1035814743.1581.8.camel@dhcp-hst2-81> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.7; VAE: 6.16.0.0; VDF: 6.16.0.9; host: mail.schwartz-pr.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At one point I tried changing it so that the amanda client ran as operator from inetd.conf and changed ownership of all of the amanda files to operator:amanda and also tried amanda:operator in addition to changing the .amandahosts file to tell it to run as operator, but then the server couldn't even connect to the client. I think that I've got it configured now as the port set it up originally. Where are you setting what user amdump gets run as? Jess On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 09:55, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hi! > > > error [must be invoked by operator] > > Well, your message missed an obvious bit of information - is amdump > invoked as user "operator"? If not, who does it run as? To work > correctly, most of the Amanda stuff wants to run as user AMANDA_USER, > which in FreeBSD port is set to "operator", IIRC. > -- > Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * What are you looking down here for? Read the message! > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message