On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 at 2:07pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I'd prefer to use tar to perform backups, primarilly for portability > of restores. However, amanda is running as user 'backup' which > doesn't seem to have read permissions in many places.
Amanda calls tar via the setuid root 'runtar' wrapper. So when it runs the backups, it can get everything. If amcheck is complaining, it's because selfcheck doesn't run setuid root. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
