On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:49:46AM -0600, Dege, Robert C. wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Frank,
> 
> I think so to, but when I did, ls -l, it shows the correct permissions:
> 
> [root@thoth amanda]# ls -l /usr/local/dist/libexec/
> total 288
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 amanda amanda 25853 Feb 16 10:43 amandad
> -rwsr-x---  1 root   amanda 12417 Feb 16 10:43 amqde
> -rwsr-x---  1 root   amanda 18015 Feb 16 10:43 calcsize
> -rwsr-x---  1 root   amanda 11872 Feb 16 10:43 killpgrp
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 amanda amanda  4822 Feb 16 10:43 patch-system
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root   28452 Feb 16 10:38 rmt
> -rwsr-x---  1 root   amanda  8536 Feb 16 10:43 rundump
> -rwsr-x---  1 root   amanda  9947 Feb 16 10:43 runtar
> 

Is your backup running as group "amanda"?

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