OK,  here are the diagnostics:

amcheck -c Daily

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------

Client check: 1 host checked in 0.398 seconds, 2 problems found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3)

ls /mnt/sglab | grep monica

drwx------   18 monica   sglab        4096 Dec 18 18:50 monica/

amstatus Daily | grep monica

localhost:/mnt/sglab/monica              0 3372540k finished (17:04:07)
localhost:/mnt/sglab/monica/BACKUPS      1     170k finished (12:21:50)
localhost:/mnt/sglab/monica/DPO          1    1200k finished (12:22:00)

From: "John R. Jackson" <jrj AT purdue DOT edu>
Reply-To: jrj AT purdue DOT edu
To: "David Trusty" <dwtrusty AT hotmail DOT com>
CC: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org

Subject: Re: Latest amcheck reports error with rwx------ dirs Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 17:36:28 -0500

>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

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