Gene Heskett wrote:

On Thursday 20 May 2004 14:10, Steven Schoch wrote:

./configure --without-server --with-group=amanda --with-user=amanda
--with-amandahosts

This is the wrong group, the group may be bin, backup or disk, but it should have essentially root rights to the system. A gid <=10 is desireable.

But it does work if you use gnutar instead of dump, or if
you add amanda to group disk as additional group (and maybe add
"groups = yes" in xinetd.conf)

Maybe that is indeed the cause of the problems, but I don't
understand how running it manually on the server is different from
crontab. In both cases is the client invoked through xinetd.

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