On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:13:35PM +0100, Chuck Amadi wrote:
> Hi again
> 
> I am getting somewhere after a battle of some sorts but I have a few
> more errors. I have
> myserver:/usr/lib/amanda # su amanda -c "/usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1"
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> WARNING: program /usr/sbin/amcheck: not setuid-root
                                          ^^^^^^ ^^^^
                                             1    2

> myserver:/usr/sbin # ls -l amcheck
> -rwsr-x---  1 amanda disk 189134 Jul  1  2004 amcheck
     ^          ^^^^^^
     1            2

> 
> So I have had to set the sticky bit to /usr/lib/planner and dumper but
> when I tried chmod u+s /usr/sbin/amcheck I still get that error

Note there are two parts to the error message.

Your amanda installation has been done improperly.
There are several programs the must be owned by root and setuid'ed.

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