On Thursday 20 May 2004 17:17, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>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.

One thing not spec'd here Paul, is who ran it, in both cases.  Any 
test runs should be done as the user amanda, and the crontab entry 
should be in the crontab for the user amanda.

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