Could we add a test to make sure that runtar (and rundump, presumably) do actually run rather than basing the test on their permissions?
I ask because I have just discovered (the hard way) that this site I've inherited mounts all their /usr/local directories from the one NFS share with the nosuid flag ... which means that although /usr/local/libexec/runtar has r-sr-x--- root sys, it won't run. It took until the backups failed last night to determine this and a lot of head scratching this morning, unfortunately, since amcheck -c daily reported no errors. It wouldn't be a hard test, for runtar you could simply see whether runtar --version produces something sensible or whether runtar itself complains of not being suid root ... presumably something similar for dump would be possible as well ... -- Malcolm Herbert This brain intentionally [EMAIL PROTECTED] left blank
