On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 at 10:08am, Monserrat Seisdedos Nu�ez wrote > two questions: > * i have a linux box doing amanda backups (amanda:as user bin) > to an aix box (amandad:as user root), when linux does the backup in aix, > which user run the program in aix machine?.
It runs as whatever user you told it to when you ran ./configure on the AIX box. Except for tar backups, which get started by the setuid root runtar wrapper. > * amanda runs tar in the aix machine, but i have aix's tar and > gtar, which one it is running?, i would like to run gtar because i have a > exclude file and with aix's tar it doesn't work. The first in the PATH is > aix's tar, how can i tell amanda to use gtar without modifing the path? > amanda is running whichever one it found at ./configure time. This info should be in config.status (if you kept it) or /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug. You *must* use GNUtar for amanda. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
