That was it. It only happened on the RH7.0 system. RH7.2 doesn't seem to need:
groups = yes Thanks to all who helped very much! I would never have know this one. Dick > One other thing. Joshua asked what your amandad xinetd entry looked like. > In particular, you need "groups yes" (or something like that) to make > xinetd put amandad in all the alternate groups (why they didn't make > this the default is beyond me). Without that, amandad will only be run > in its primary group, which is not "disk" and thus has no access. > > When you use "su", you get all the alternate groups, so that's why it > works from there. > > I have a TODO list item to log the alternate groups in the debug file, > which would help diagnose this problem, but it's harder than you might > think (it used to be a non-standard system call, so portability is > a problem). > > John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
