On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 at 12:42pm, Jan Boshoff wrote
> Also, here's the output of /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug:
>
> asking killpgrp to terminate
> calculating for amname '/users', dirname '/users'
> sendsize: getting size via gnutar for /users level 0
> sendsize: running "/usr/freeware/libexec/runtar --create --directory /users
> --listed-incremental
> /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/columbus.che.udel.edu_users_0.new --sparse
> --one-file-system --ignore-failed-read --totals --file /dev/null
> --exclude-from=/usr/freeware/etc/amanda/userfiles_amanda.exclude ."
> runtar: error [must be invoked by root]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There's the problem. Is the suid bit set on
/usr/freeware/libexec/runtar? Hey, wait a minute...
Err, you installed this from freeware, didn't you -- fess up! Amanda sets
a lot of stuff at compile time -- compiling and installing from sources is
*highly* recommended.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
