Re: defaukt contents of /etc/amanda

As horrible as it only sounds, I'd try a strace.  Also... I don't think 
it should make a difference, but try adding +x to your permissions, 
since it's a directory...(?)

On 2025-08-18 18:28, gene heskett wrote:
> On 8/17/25 14:32, gene heskett wrote:
>> preferably in ls -lR format
>> my /etc/amanda after an install of the deb's is empty, on a 
>> bannana-pi-m5 running bookworm.
>>
>> Thanks all.
>>
>> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
> No reply's.  Amazing since the wiki page claims its the most popular 
> backup ever..  So I've played the 10,000 monkeys trying to rewrite 
> Shakespears output, probably followed the ownership and perms too 
> well.  Tried to invent the user backup, succeeded well enough I can 
> login as first user (gene) then sudo -i to become root.  then "su 
> backup", who can the df a 10T raid6 and see:
>  backup@amanda:/root$ df /raid6
> Filesystem                           1K-blocks         Used 
>  Available          Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/vg0-myraid 11272913680 1055764 11271857916   1%  /raid6
> owned by backup:backup, with  perms=040660, or rw,rw,--.  looks good 
> right? BUT:
> ====================
> root@amanda:~# su backup
> backup@amanda:/root$ ls -l /raid6
> ls: cannot access '/raid6/DailySet1': Permission denied
> total 0
> d????????? ? ? ? ?            ? DailySet1
> backup@amanda:/root$ ls -l /raid6/DailySet1
> ls: cannot access '/raid6/DailySet1': Permission denied
> ====================
> So something is still fubar.  The question is what?
> Thank you for any assistance.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.