selfcheck, sendsize and sendbackup are run on client as the amanda user.
They have the same permission.

It's only the backup program that is sometime run as root.

Jean-Louis


On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:04:26AM -0600, Frank Smith wrote:
> --On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:28:28 -0500 Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp 
> DOT com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > IIRC, amcheck does not run with the same root permissions as amdump.
> > Thus it may not be able to get to the excluce file during an amcheck.
> > 
> 
> >From my experience this is indeed true. This makes the amcheck email
> more difficult to deal with, since it logs many errors of being unable
> to read exclude files (which are read fine with amdump).
>    What is/was the reason behind this design decision?  It seems like
> the closer the behavior of amcheck is to amdump the more relevant its
> output would be.
> 
> Frank
> 
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