Re: exclude list optional not working?

[Graeme Humphries]

Title: Re: exclude list optional not working?

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 23:14 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> - or if the file is not readable: in that case amanda trusts the
>    suid-root runtar executable so that gnutar can read the contents of
>    the file, never mind the permissions.
>
> But Amanda does need to verify if the file is there or not, otherwise
> gnutar will complain about having handed a nonexisting file in the
> argument list.

Ahhh, I see, it just passes off the file to tar if it can be verified as
existing. In my case, it can't verify that the file exists or not, so it
chokes. Interesting. I wonder how I'll work around that. :)