On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 at 4:37pm, Orion Poplawski wrote

> runtar: error [must be invoked by root]
> 
> Looks like amanda was compiled with --with-user=root?  I'll try running as
> root on the client...

Not necessarily.  You can find out exactly what configure options were 
used by looking in /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug.  Note that the runtar 
executable needs to be owned by root and setuid (as do several other 
programs -- this is done properly when you do 'make install' as root).

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


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