--On Thursday, May 12, 2005 21:37:09 +0100 Rodrigo Ventura <yoda AT isr.ist.utl 
DOT pt> wrote:

> Alexander Jolk wrote:
>> Ahm, sorry, I don't quite follow you there.  Your sendbackup.* files are 
>> empty, zero bytes?  That shouldn't be the case already.  (Don't get 
>> caught by the fact that they are readable only to your amanda user, and 
>> root!)  And which files are the include files?  Could you elaborate a 
>> little bit?
> 
> Yeah, zero bytes.
> 
> In fact /var/spool/imap is not readable by amanda. But it is absurd that 
> amanda has to read every file in the system... (mode=600 files are 
> unbackupable???) Or maybe amanda only needs to be able to read the base 
> directory of the dump.

Did you run 'make install' as root as required?  If not, you didn't get the SUID
bits set on the appropriate binaries.

Frank

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rodrigo



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