On Friday 18 February 2005 10:10, Dege, Robert C. wrote:
>Last night, I had two systems fail on new amanda libs that I built. 

Humm I missed this in the first read, did you do an ldconfig after the 
install of the libs?  And what do you mean by building new libs?  
Theres more to amanda than just the libs...

> 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]
>
>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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