On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 7:50pm, Bram Smits wrote

> On Tue, 11 May 2004, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 12:00pm, Bram Smits wrote
> 
> > > $more /etc/xinetd.d/amandad
> =-=
> 
> > Try adding 'group=disk' to the above.
> 
> Thanks. That resolved the dumpdates error but not the other one. Putting
> group=root in and chgrp'ing dumpdates to root made it all run fine.
> Started a test backup just before I left the office, I'll see tomorrow if
> it worked. I'm not thrilled about having this stuff run as group root, but
> I can sort that out later.

If disk was amanda's secondary group (I don't recall the original mail), 
then you need "groups=yes" in the xinetd entry to have the processes to 
run with groups other than just the primary.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University