Re: defaukt contents of /etc/amanda

On 8/20/25 18:22, Deb Baddorf wrote:
>   I haven't done any Unix in 4 years , but   rw,rw,--  didn't sound right.I think you need to  rwx,rwx,---  so that you can EXECUTE the files,or access the files in a directory  (executing the directory).
> Try adding the "x"  back in??
> Deb Baddorfretired fm Fermilab :)
That did help Deb, thanks.  How is retirement treating you?  I've been 
retired from the tv station since mid 2002, lost my music teacher I'd 
had 31 yrs to COPD in 2020.  A lonely house.  Good to hear a voice from 
the past.
>
>      On Monday, August 18, 2025 at 08:35:48 PM EDT, gene heskett <[email protected]> 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.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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