Ah, so perhaps focusing on tar is "barking up the wrong tree" ! We know AMANDA uses some root-level modules that require suid to function correctly. Could it be that this is going on with AMANDA such that it conflicts with AIX in a manner that locks (or won't unlock) amandates ?
Is there a howto for AMANDA and AIX. Not many folks still using AIX these days ... On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 15:35 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Freels, James D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We took a look at uustat and the only locked files were some batch jobs > > we had running. In addition, we have rebooted while trying to debug > > this, and have only run amanda after the reboot while debugging. So, if > > there is something else locking /etc/amandates, what would it be beside > > AMANDA ? > > I'm not sure what to suggest, then. gnutar doesn't write to > /etc/amandates -- Amanda does -- so it would be unusual for gnutar to > be locking it. One solution may be to simply comment out the code > that is locking amandates, on the assumption that you are not using > it. > > Dustin > James D. Freels, Ph.D. Senior Research Staff High Flux Isotope Reactor Oak Ridge National Laboratory http://www.comsol.com/academic/papers/1780
