It still doesn't work?
The group you use ('disk' in David's example there), are you sure user
amanda (or whatever you use) belongs to that group?
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Tom wrote:
>
> Changed permissions per your suggestion (I think I had already done
> this.) and ran amcheck with the same permission problem regardless
> of being run as root or amanda
>
> I remember for awhile, there were problems with some versions of tar and
> amanda. Is that still the case and if it is what versions are known to be
> compatible with 2.4.2 and what versions are not. I am using the binary
> tar-1.13.17-8 (i386.rpm)
>
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, David Lloyd wrote:
>
> > > I've done about every alteration of the permissions of
> > > /usr/lib/amanda/runtar that I can think of and I still get the error
> > > below.
> > >
> > > Any direction would be appreciated!
> >
> > My guess is that it's a setuid program; I find these particular styles
> > of programs difficult to get the permissions to stay correct.
> >
> > Generally:
> >
> > [root]# chown root.disk runtar
> > [root]# chmod ug+rxs runtar
> >
> > What generally happens is that the chown dumps the sticky bit which
> > causes the program to fail. One other thing you could try is to run
> > AMANDA as root itself and see whether you still get the same error - if
> > root itself can't actually run the program then it's obviously not a
> > permission problem but something else.
