On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 at 2:34pm, Brandon Moro wrote

> It would appear that there I am not getting a `selfcheck*debug.' 
> Here is what I have:

Sorry -- that's created after you run amcheck.

> error [exec /usr/local/libexec/runtar: Permission denied]

> As you can see, I seem to have a permissions problem on the
> /usr/local/libexec/runtar executable.  
> 
> cd /usr/local/libexec
> ls -ltr runtar
> -rwsr-x---    1 root    sys        99409 Feb 1 15:07 runtar
> 
> The backup user ID is `amanda', and is a member of group `sys' as well as a
> member of group `disk'.  I note also that the /tmp/amanda directory is
> created:
> 
> ls -ltr /tmp
> drwx--S---    2 amanda    disk        4096 Feb 4 14:16 amanda

What does the "group=" line in your /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file say?  If you 
want amanda to pick up secondary group memberships when run from xinetd, 
you need to add "groups=yes" to that file.  Give that a shot.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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