Hello All. I have solved the problem with xinetd where killpgrp can't be
run because of group permissions. The key is to use xinetd's "groups" option.
See my xinetd configuration file for amanda below:
service amanda
{
protocol = udp
socket_type = dgram
wait = yes
user = backup
group = disk # whatever --with-group was
groups = yes # THE KEY!!
server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
server_args = amandad
}
-From the xinetd.conf man page:
groups Takes either "yes" or "no". This is
Solar Designer's fix to the supplementary
groups problem. If the groups attribute
is set to "yes", then the server is exe
cuted with access to the groups that the
server's effective UID has access to. If
the groups attribute is set to "no", then
the server runs with no group privleges.
This attribute must be set to "yes" for
many BSD systems. This attribute can be
set in the defaults section as well.
It's good to have my workstation backing up again :-)
--
Joshua Warchol
UNIX Systems Administrator
DSL.net
