>Even though amanda does not run as root, the tar command which archives
>everything does run as root.  (I believe this is true because I have 
>individual files which have 700 permissions which do get archived.)

That's correct.

>However, when the amcheck command is run, it is not running as root, and if
>the directory ("disk" in my case) being archived has permission 700, an 
>extraneous error message is printed.
>
>What do you think?

I think, as Jon asked, that you need to post the **exact** message
you're seeing.  It's very difficult to guess what's going on here.

You are correct that the selfcheck portion of amcheck that runs on the
client is *not* running as root (neither is amcheck except right at
the very beginning).  So it could be something like what you've said,
but it's hard to know for sure.

>David

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj AT purdue DOT edu