selfcheck, sendsize and sendbackup are run on client as the amanda user.
They have the same permission.
It's only the backup program that is sometime run as root.
Jean-Louis
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:04:26AM -0600, Frank Smith wrote:
> --On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:28:28 -0500 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> >
> > IIRC, amcheck does not run with the same root permissions as amdump.
> > Thus it may not be able to get to the excluce file during an amcheck.
> >
>
> >From my experience this is indeed true. This makes the amcheck email
> more difficult to deal with, since it logs many errors of being unable
> to read exclude files (which are read fine with amdump).
>What is/was the reason behind this design decision? It seems like
> the closer the behavior of amcheck is to amdump the more relevant its
> output would be.
>
> Frank
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