amcheck privileges (Was Re: Can't open exclude file ???)

2004-01-28 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:28:28 -0500 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: amcheck privileges (Was Re: Can't open exclude file ???)

2004-01-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
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