Amanda-Users

Re: Run as user amanda issues

2003-10-14 11:39:51
Subject: Re: Run as user amanda issues
From: Harri Haataja <harri.haataja AT smilehouse DOT com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:32:06 +0300
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:20:11AM -0500, Johnson, S wrote:
> In the amanda.conf, I've got the dump user configured as amanda.
> Any suggestions?

A few questions:

> I can get amanda to run if I su amanda then run the job manually.

You mean amcheck? amdump?

> Cron doesn't seems to want to run Amanda as root, not amanda.

Where in "cron" is amanda run? (Usually in the crontab of the user you
want it to run as. crontab -u amanda -e)

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