--On Friday, February 18, 2005 09:10:30 -0600 "Dege, Robert C." <robert.dege AT 
ngc DOT com> wrote:

> 
> Last night, I had two systems fail on new amanda libs that I built.  Upon 
> investigation, I found
> this in the runtar debug logs in /tmp/amanda:
> 
># more /tmp/amanda/runtar.20050217191004.debug
> 
> runtar: debug 1 pid 11435 ruid 7510 euid 7510: start at Thu Feb 17 19:10:04 
> 2005
> /usr/local/dist/bin/tar: version 2.4.4p4
> runtar: error [must be setuid root]

I think it is complaining about runtar not being suid root
like it's supposed to be.  After you build amanda as the
appropriate user, you need to do the 'make install' as
root to get the proper permissiona and suid bits set
appropriately.

Frank

> 
> runtar: pid 11435 finish time Thu Feb 17 19:10:04 2005
> 
> 
> Yet, an ls -l shows
> 
># ls -l /usr/local/dist/bin/tar
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 322664 Feb 16 10:38 /usr/local/dist/bin/tar
> 
> And
> 
># /usr/local/dist/bin/tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
> Copyright © 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ....
> 
> 
> I'm can't figure out why runtar is complaining like this.  Any ideas?
> 
> -Rob



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