sorry forgot to mention that cron IS running

root@amanda init.d]# ps -ef | grep cron root 13686 1 0 07:18 ? 00:00:00 crond root 13771 6676 0 07:34 pts/2 00:00:00 grep cron

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:29 AM, bluethundr bluethundr@gmail.com wrote:

hey centos

long time no hear! :) I'm having a small issue where the backup jobs that I set to run in the crontab of the backup user do not appear to be running. Here's how I set it up (with crontab -e as the backup user):

run amanda every night (check at 2:45 and backup at 3)

45 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amcheck  /var/log/amanda/crontab/amcheck.log

• 3 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump  /var/log/amanda/crontab/amdump.log

The executables are where they are supposed to be and run if you type them in on the command line:

[amandabackup@amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amcheck -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 68624 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amcheck

[amandabackup@amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amdump -rwxr-xr-x 1 amandabackup disk 9637 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amdump

Although I'm not sure what the 's' indicates in the permissions of amcheck.

And here's a tail of the cron logs

[root@amanda init.d]# tail /var/log/cron Jan  5 07:01:01 newamanda crond[13612]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Jan  5 07:17:09 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT (amandabackup) Jan  5 07:18:00 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) REPLACE (amandabackup) Jan  5 07:18:00 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup) Jan  5 07:18:01 newamanda crond[1448]: (amandabackup) RELOAD (cron/amandabackup) Jan  5 07:18:39 newamanda crond[13686]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) Jan  5 07:23:01 newamanda crontab[13699]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT (amandabackup) Jan  5 07:23:47 newamanda crontab[13699]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup) Jan  5 07:25:38 newamanda crontab[13751]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT (amandabackup) Jan  5 07:25:53 newamanda crontab[13751]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup)

thanks in advance!

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hey centos

long time no hear! :) I'm having a small issue where the backup jobs that I set to run in the crontab of the backup user do not appear to be running. Here's how I set it up (with crontab -e as the backup user):

run amanda every night (check at 2:45 and backup at 3)

45 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amcheck /var/log/amanda/crontab/amcheck.log

• 3 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump /var/log/amanda/crontab/amdump.log

The executables are where they are supposed to be and run if you type them in on the command line:

[amandabackup@amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amcheck -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 68624 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amcheck

[amandabackup@amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amdump -rwxr-xr-x 1 amandabackup disk 9637 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amdump

Although I'm not sure what the 's' indicates in the permissions of amcheck.

And here's a tail of the cron logs

[root@amanda init.d]# tail /var/log/cron Jan 5 07:01:01 newamanda crond[13612]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Jan 5 07:17:09 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT (amandabackup) Jan 5 07:18:00 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) REPLACE (amandabackup) Jan 5 07:18:00 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup) Jan 5 07:18:01 newamanda crond[1448]: (amandabackup) RELOAD (cron/amandabackup) Jan 5 07:18:39 newamanda crond[13686]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) Jan 5 07:23:01 newamanda crontab[13699]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT (amandabackup) Jan 5 07:23:47 newamanda crontab[13699]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup) Jan 5 07:25:38 newamanda crontab[13751]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT (amandabackup) Jan 5 07:25:53 newamanda crontab[13751]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup)

thanks in advance!

Not using Amanda, myself, it appears to me that the syntax of the commands in your crontab is incorrect. Assuming that the last parameter on each line is a log into which you wish to redirect the output of cron'd commands, you need to add > or >> (if you wish to append) between the command and the path to the log file.

Otherwise, cron would be trying to run the amanda commands with the last item (the log file?) as a command line parameter. As I don't run Amanda, I don't know whether you're trying to pass those log files as command line parameters to the amcheck and amdump commands or wish the output of those commands to be sent to those files.

Hi,

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 07:29 -0500, bluethundr wrote:

[amandabackup@amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amcheck -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 68624 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amcheck

Unless the backup user is in the disk group it has no permissions on this file.

Although I'm not sure what the 's' indicates in the permissions of amcheck.

Setuid, run the executable as the owner (root in this case). Running root setuid binaries is a dangerous practice and can open all kinds of holes in your system.

Regards, Leonard.