Hi Thanks for that my boss more than likely add such a program before he went on holiday as this has only started to occur last week.
I have had no previous problem and I have been running this for over two months. I will check whats going on. Thanks again. On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 13:39 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 03:34:29PM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I run by hand amcheck it is in my crontab but every now and then I run > > it to check. > > > > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > > ----------------------------- > > WARNING: program /usr/lib/amanda/planner: not setuid-root > > WARNING: program /usr/lib/amanda/dumper: not setuid-root > > WARNING: program /usr/sbin/amcheck: not setuid-root > > > > Thus I use chmod u+s as root. > > > > # chmod u+s /usr/lib/amanda/planner > > # chmod u+s /usr/lib/amanda/dumper > > # chmod u+s /usr/sbin/amcheck > > > > The above sorts this out bit I have had to do this a few times this > > week. > > > > I haven't got to do this on the other tape server Where is the best > > place to check why it keeps reverting to the following below. > > > > Chuck, > > I hope you realize this has nothing to do with amanda. > > The system probably has some "security" program that > runs periodically and reports on all root-setuid programs. > Perhaps automatically removing the setuid on those not > in some list of "known safe" programs. > > I once had an AT&T sysadmin who when to a security class. > At the class they learned that setuid programs were a > huge security problem. When she got back, that Sunday night, > she came in to the training site where I consulted and ran > a find command on all the systems to locate and remove all > setuid permissions on all programs. > > Monday morning, very little worked right. > > -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Email chuck.smtl.co.uk Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830
