Hi, Frank, on Samstag, 14. Mai 2005 at 01:54 you wrote to amanda-users:
>> I thought this would be obvious ... every DLE has to be readable by >> the amanda-user or, more detailled, the user, AMANDA has been >> configured with (--with-user). FS> That's not technically correct, I back up several DLEs that are not FS> readable by the amanda user. Using a group such as disk or bin may give FS> it access to the underlying device in order to run dump, but it doesn't give it FS> access to all directories on that device when using tar. That is why many of FS> the amanda binaries are suid root, so it can back it up. You're right, my mistake ... sorry about that misinformation. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]