On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 at 12:41pm, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote

> Here's the portion of the file sendsize.20030416004501.debug pertaining to 
> www:sda8 which ran last night:
> ....
> asking killpgrp to terminate
> calculating for amname '/var/www/main/htdocs', dirname '/var/www/main/htdocs'
> sendsize: getting size via gnutar for /var/www/main/htdocs level 0
> sendsize: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline
> sendsize: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory 
> /var/www/main/htdocs --one-file-system --listed-incremental 
> /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/www_var_www_main_htdocs_0.new --sparse 
> --ignore-failed-read --totals .
> runtar: error [must be invoked by backup]

(I'm a bit behind, so sorry if these questions have already been 
answered).  Are you using inetd or xinetd?  What does the relevant 
entry/config file look like?  What does 'ls -l /usr/local/libexec/runtar' 
look like?  You did 'make install' as root, correct?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University