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. 
> 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]

Note here that its not tar its complaining about, its runtar.

>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
Mine is:
-rwsr-x---  1 root   disk   36851 Feb 14 22:46 /usr/local/libexec/runtar

Note the 's' in the perms.  When you installed amanda, what user were you?
If it came from rpms, fuss at the packager, then remove it and put in the
tarball home built version, lots, lots less trouble in the long run.

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