On Tuesday 05 July 2005 13:19, Graeme Humphries wrote: >On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 12:07 -0500, Frank Smith wrote: >> You really shouldn't be running Amanda as root, but as a separate >> user. When you run 'make install' as root it installs the >> executables that need root access suid root. Then when your >> backups run it can access everything necessary. > >I've installed via Debian (Ubuntu) package, and the reason I need to > run as root is because on our fileserver, giving access to the > amanda user in the unix permissions isn't feasible. You can thank > Samba and Windows clients that decide to automatically overwrite > ACLs for that. ;P > amanda cannot do an suid root if it was built as root, no way around it due to the failure of the suid command if its already owned by root.
>> In my experience the error occurs if Amanda can't access the >> directory to see if the file is there. Perhaps the docs need to >> be rephrased. The error is harmless, runtar can access the exclude >> file (as root) and will do what you want (assuming your file is >> correct). > >I'd rather just have any permission related error ignored if the >optional keyword is used. Is there a situation where we *would* want > it to hard error out on an optional exclude list if it can't get > into the directory the exclude list is supposed to be in? > >Graeme -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
