selfcheck, sendsize and sendbackup are run on client as the amanda user. They have the same permission.
It's only the backup program that is sometime run as root. Jean-Louis On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:04:26AM -0600, Frank Smith wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:28:28 -0500 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > IIRC, amcheck does not run with the same root permissions as amdump. > > Thus it may not be able to get to the excluce file during an amcheck. > > > > >From my experience this is indeed true. This makes the amcheck email > more difficult to deal with, since it logs many errors of being unable > to read exclude files (which are read fine with amdump). > What is/was the reason behind this design decision? It seems like > the closer the behavior of amcheck is to amdump the more relevant its > output would be. > > Frank > > -- > Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 > Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
