On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:23:12AM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: > > The amdump I'm doing right now is looking good: the sendsize.*.include > files for the var/spool/imap/user is non-zero (and its contents make > sense). I guess the problem was that the directory var/spool/imap/user > was not readable by amanda. Although gnutar is performed as root, and > therefore there are no permission requirements, the include files are > performed as amanda.
Good to know. You may have been the first to have an environment that triggered the problem. > Let me strongly suggest that a paragraph explaining that the base > directory in the DLE *must* be readable by amanda, so that it can > build the include file. Absolutely. I think it is only needed for include, not for exclude. > Maybe an alternative way is to let the program that builds the include > files to be setuid root. That has its own set of problems which are to be avoided if possible. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
