A full solution would be to write an selinux policy, either on your own (search for Dan Walsh, he has some excellent selinux troubleshooting guides) or by opening a bug report with RedHat. For a temporary solution, you can briefly bypass selinux with the command
setenforce 0 This will let you run your restore. Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 4/30/2015 6:25 PM, Craig Shiroma wrote: > Hi Frank, > > Thank you very much for the info! Yes, this is a RHEL 6.6 box that I'm trying > to restore to. After using Romeo's check, it seems selinux is blocking the > restore. > > Is there a best practice for dealing with this situation? > > Thanks again, > -craig > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Frank Sweetser <f...@wpi.edu > <mailto:f...@wpi.edu>> wrote: > > > Is this a RedHat/CentOS box? They've recently made some changes to the > selinux configuration around bacula which prevents it from taking pretty > much > any action other thank backups, including running scripts or creating > files. > > Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu <http://wpi.edu> | For every problem, > there is a solution that > Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. > Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken > > On 4/29/2015 9:01 PM, Craig Shiroma wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to a restore file to a different host's /tmp. I've select > the > > target host by changing the value of Restore Client during the restore > > process, selecting the desired target host to restore to from the hosts > list > > presented. However, when I attempt the restore, I get the following > error > > message: > > > > 2015-04-29 14:30:09<target_hostname> JobId 83765: Error: makepath.c:142 > Cannot > > create directory /tmp/etc: ERR=Permission denied > > > > Any idea what could be causing the problem? Restoring to the source > host is > > no problem. > > > > Note: I replaced the actual hostname with "<target_hostname>" in the > above > > error message. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > -Craig > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > One dashboard for servers and applications across > Physical-Virtual-Cloud > > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable > Insights > > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
