On Monday 29 November 2004 10:58, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
>>>Yep, user 'amanda' has a primary (and only) group of 'amanda'.  I
>>> did both the build and install as root - another user suggested
>>> that might be the issue.  I'm not so sure, but I will rebuild as
>>> user 'amanda' and switch to root for the install as soon as I get
>>> to the office.
>>
>>I think that will help things tremendously :-)
>
>No change in behavior - built as user amanda, installed as user
> root, the runtar that gets installed is identical in all respects
> to the one installed when built as user root.
>
>-rwsr-x---    1 root     amanda      13035 Nov 29 09:55 runtar
>
>I've probably done two dozen other amanda installs following this
> exact recipe and they've all worked.   Very odd.  So, even though
> the amanda user has a primary group of amanda, this doesn't seem to
> be recognized. It's got to be something weird - like two amanda
> users or two amanda groups colliding somehow....

Didja blow away that src dir and unpack a fresh one?  Please do if you 
haven't.

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