Zoltan Kato wrote:

/home is not NFS mounted and the directories are not transient (they are
the actual home dirs of individual users). runtar is seduid root. I tryed
to run the gtar command from the log file manually as root, and found that
it ONLY works when I run it from /home:

root@rozi$ cd /home/
root@rozi$ /opt/sfw/bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null --directory /home
--one-file-system --listed-incremental
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu_home_h0_0.new
--sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --files-from
/tmp/amanda/sendsize._home__h0.20031113235902.include 2>&1|less


But then how is it possible that sendsize (or whatever other program) can
collect the filenames in
/tmp/amanda/sendsize._home__h0.20031113235902.include but gtar fails
unless started from /home (note that the --directory /home is present on
the command line which should cd to /home....). Any idea? How should I
specify the include/exclude directives in the disklist entries?

There must be something special about that /home partition.
Give us as much info as possible.
What version of gtar are you using?
What are the mount options of that filesystem?

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Paul @ Home