On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Sven Rudolph wrote: > With Amanda 2.4.2 the exclude files didn't need to be readable by the > amanda user. The exclude files are only used by tar which runs as > root anyway. > > In 2.4.3 the exclude files are read (in order to merge the other > exclude entries ?) and the written to > /tmp/amanda/sendbackup.*.exclude. This file is then used as argument > to tar. > > I had only-root-readable index files, and the generated exlcude file > was empty. > > IMHO amcheck should check that the exclude files on the client are > readable.
It should, unless you specified them to be optional. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
