but they are running as setuid already.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 146854 Jun 15 12:40 amandad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 222418 Jun 10 15:46 amcleanupdisk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 138181 Jun 15 12:40 amidxtaped
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 373203 Jun 10 15:46 amindexd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 164824 Jun 10 15:46 amlogroll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 326556 Jun 10 15:46 amtrmidx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 325052 Jun 10 15:46 amtrmlog
-rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 112437 Jun 15 12:40 calcsize
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 10040 Jun 10 15:46 chg-chio
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 8251 Jun 10 15:46 chg-chs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 5778 Jun 10 15:46 chg-manual
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 4095 Jun 10 15:46 chg-mtx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 9104 Jun 10 15:46 chg-multi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 6430 Jun 10 15:46 chg-rth
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 354485 Jun 10 15:46 chg-scsi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 15756 Jun 10 15:46 chg-zd-mtx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 308884 Jun 10 15:46 driver
-rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 290266 Jun 10 15:46 dumper
-rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 94862 Jun 15 12:40 killpgrp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 4615 Jun 15 12:40 patch-system
-rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 367065 Jun 10 15:46 planner
-rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 92258 Jun 15 12:40 rundump
-rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 93041 Jun 15 12:40 runtar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 126629 Jun 15 12:40 selfcheck
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 251041 Jun 15 12:40 sendbackup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 227079 Jun 15 12:40 sendsize
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 362433 Jun 10 15:46 taper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 92070 Jun 15 12:40 versionsuffix
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandre Oliva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Wong Ching Kuen Frederick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: tcp port
> On Jun 17, 2001, "Wong Ching Kuen Frederick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/amanda --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk
--with-portrange=800,830 --with-udpportrange=800,830
>
> > however, after using tcpdump, i find out that it use udp port 800,830,
but tcp port 3xxxx. could somebody tell me why?! thanks.
>
> Another issue is that a process must be running as root to get a
> privileged (<1024) port. The Amanda server, when connecting to a
> client port, is not running as root, so it can't get a privileged
> port.
>
> --
> Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
> Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com}
> CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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>