On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 7:50pm, Bram Smits wrote > On Tue, 11 May 2004, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 12:00pm, Bram Smits wrote > > > > $more /etc/xinetd.d/amandad > =-= > > > Try adding 'group=disk' to the above. > > Thanks. That resolved the dumpdates error but not the other one. Putting > group=root in and chgrp'ing dumpdates to root made it all run fine. > Started a test backup just before I left the office, I'll see tomorrow if > it worked. I'm not thrilled about having this stuff run as group root, but > I can sort that out later.
If disk was amanda's secondary group (I don't recall the original mail), then you need "groups=yes" in the xinetd entry to have the processes to run with groups other than just the primary. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
