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 "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
