Not at all, just wanted to make sure I know what is going on... I have a couple more questions before I crontab this great piece of software... coming in separate threads :)
Thanks all, Mohamed On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 12:05, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On 13 Jun 2002 at 11:39am, Mohamed Lrhazi wrote > > > I compiled and installed amanda-2.4.3b3 on solaris 8 and run a couple > > of tests to get a simple config to work. I need to keep a regular back > > up of a couple of filesystems on an nfs mounted filesystem. > > > > Although I configured with : --with-user=amnda2 --with-group=sys on both > > the client and the server, when run : su amanda2 -c "amdump normal" from > > the server machine, I see tar running on the client as user root, then > > gzip runs as user amanda2... any idea why? why doesnt tar run as > > amanda2 too? > > Amanda runs tar via the setuid root runtar wrapper to get access to all > files in a disklist entry. This is meant to be analagous to running dump > (ufsdump on solaris), which accesses the raw disk devices (and thus needs > permission to do this). > > Is there a reason this behavior is causing you problems? > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University >
