On Tuesday 05 July 2005 13:19, Graeme Humphries wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 12:07 -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
>> You really shouldn't be running Amanda as root, but as a separate
>> user.  When you run 'make install' as root it installs the
>> executables that need root access suid root.  Then when your
>> backups run it can access everything necessary.
>
>I've installed via Debian (Ubuntu) package, and the reason I need to
> run as root is because on our fileserver, giving access to the
> amanda user in the unix permissions isn't feasible. You can thank
> Samba and Windows clients that decide to automatically overwrite
> ACLs for that. ;P
>
amanda cannot do an suid root if it was built as root, no way around 
it due to the failure of the suid command if its already owned by 
root.

>> In my experience the error occurs if Amanda can't access the
>> directory to see if the file is there.  Perhaps the docs need to
>> be rephrased. The error is harmless, runtar can access the exclude
>> file (as root) and will do what you want (assuming your file is
>> correct).
>
>I'd rather just have any permission related error ignored if the
>optional keyword is used. Is there a situation where we *would* want
> it to hard error out on an optional exclude list if it can't get
> into the directory the exclude list is supposed to be in?
>
>Graeme

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