Jean-Louis Martineau <martinea AT IRO.UMontreal DOT CA> writes:

> 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.

In my 2.4.3 it didn't, this might be fixed in newer amanda versions.

When the original exclude file (as given in the disklist) is not
readable amcheck -c creates an empty file
/tmp/amanda/selfcheck._data.20030218135337.exclude

amcheck didn't report the problem.

        Sven