On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> With Amanda 2.4.2 the exclude files didn't need to be readable by the
> amanda user. The exclude files are only used by tar which runs as
> root anyway.
> 
> In 2.4.3 the exclude files are read (in order to merge the other
> exclude entries ?) and the written to
> /tmp/amanda/sendbackup.*.exclude. This file is then used as argument
> to tar.
> 
> I had only-root-readable index files, and the generated exlcude file
> was empty.
> 
> IMHO amcheck should check that the exclude files on the client are
> readable.

It should, unless you specified them to be optional.

Jean-Louis
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