--On Monday, April 18, 2005 16:17:16 +0100 Chuck Amadi <chuck AT smtl.co DOT 
uk> wrote:

> Hi reinstalled amanda as Root make distclean 
> As amanda ./configure --( My preferences)
> As amanada make
> As Root make install
> 
> Thus checked /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amcheck ls -al command the
> output as below:
> 
> -rwsr-x---  1 root   disk  86322 Apr 18 16:03 amcheck
> 
> But when I run the following amcheck command
> 
> myserver:/local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin # su amanda -c
> "/local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amcheck"
> zsh: permission denied: /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amcheck
> myservefr:/local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin #
> 
> Im going a bit crazy Now! as I assume the sticky bit would sort out the
> permission issue.

It would, assuming your amanda user belongs to the group 'disk'.  Does it?

Frank

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Chuck
> 
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