On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:19:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 30 December 2002 19:25, John Oliver wrote:
> >[root@backup root]# su amanda -c "amstatus DailySet1"
> >bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is a bogus report and can be ignored.  It seems to have no 
> effect on the outcome, and no one could tell me why I used to get 
> it, but don't anymore.

It's because since we're su'ing to amanda, but not using amanda's
environment, it's trying to source root's .bashrc, but can't becasue
/root is unreadable to non-root users... :-)

> >/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amdump: No such file or directory at
> >/usr/sbin/amstatus line 103.
> 
> Also, here its apparent that amanda has finished and can no longer 
> be queried for its current sataus because its not running anymore.

Ahhh... hence the -p option.  I get it now... :-)

Thanks...

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