On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Mohamed Lrhazi wrote: > 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?
Tar must run as root in order to be able to backup all files with correct ownership details etc. Regards, Niall O Broin
