--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

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