On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Ted Sariyski wrote:
> sendsize.debug: "runtar: error [must be invoked by root]". The problem
> is that for the rest of the machines I compiled amanda with user amanda,
> while for the last SGI I used the precompiled tardist. The precompiled
> version seems to be compiled with user root. The amanda server contacts
> the clients as amanda, while the last SGI expects not amanda but root. I
> wonder is there a way to change the user for amanda or I have to compile
> amanda from source?
I remember having seen two version on SGIs freeware site. One being
compiled with user "root" and one with "amanda".
But as John said, compiling it yourself is probably better and that's what
I did on the SGIs, too. I did not like the freeware packages pretty much.
Peter
