> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Casey Scott<[email protected]> > wrote: > > I have a backup job configured to use files (virtual tapes). How can > I control the permissions that the files get written with? Currently, > their group have no permissions, but I would like group to have read > permission. > > This appears in the code: > > /* This looks dangerous, but is actually modified by the umask. */ > #define VFS_DEVICE_CREAT_MODE 0666 > > so I think you should look to the process umask to adjust that.
Amanda runs as user amanda which has a umask=022. I'm not sure how the permission is getting changed since all the backup files are created as 600
