Re: defaukt contents of /etc/amanda

That should be it: 'x' on a directory means you can enter it (even if 
you can't read its contents... useful for 'blind-drop folders: create a 
bunch of randomly-named dirs inside a 0711 one and give users only the 
path to where they can have access).

Diego

Il 19/08/25 01:27, Winston Sorfleet ha scritto:
> 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.