Hello John, You put your finger right on the solution! The former admin put a"nosuid" mount on the partition that had Amanda installed! I removed it and it corrected the problem. Thanks! Luc Lalonde "John R. Jackson" wrote: > >I can't seem to figure this one out. I've got my Linux host running > >Amanda-2.4.2 and all the Linux clients working allright but not my > >Ultra10's running Solaris 2.7. > >... > >Is there a Solaris patch I should know about? > > I don't think so. I have several Solaris 2.7 machines, both Sparc and > Ultra, and they are working fine. > > >Here's a listing of runtar: > >-rwsr-x--- 1 root backup 216808 Jan 20 21:19 runtar > > > >And here's the error I get in /tmp/amanda/sendsize.debug: > >runtar: error [must be setuid root] > > I assume the "ls -l" and sendsize*debug came from the same client host? > > Is there any NFS going on, like is runtar being served from some other > machine? If so, you'll need to change the client mount command (or > automount, etc) and possibly the server (e.g. dfstab) to allow setuid > across the NFS mount. See "man mount_nfs" and "man dfstab_nfs". > > Here's a small patch to log what effective UID runtar thinks it is, > which might shed some more light on things. > > >Luc. > > John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: runtar.diff > runtar.diff Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream) > Description: runtar.diff -- Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF Telephone: (418) 656-2131 poste 6623 Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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