--On Tuesday, July 05, 2005 15:20:15 -0600 Graeme Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 23:14 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: >> - or if the file is not readable: in that case amanda trusts the >> suid-root runtar executable so that gnutar can read the contents of >> the file, never mind the permissions. >> >> But Amanda does need to verify if the file is there or not, otherwise >> gnutar will complain about having handed a nonexisting file in the >> argument list. > > Ahhh, I see, it just passes off the file to tar if it can be verified as > existing. In my case, it can't verify that the file exists or not, so it > chokes. Interesting. I wonder how I'll work around that. :) You can do what I do, just ignore the errors from amcheck that you know are bogus. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501