Mitch Collinsworth schrieb: > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Sounds BAD. >> >> I'd like to know more on that ... is this a major issue for Amanda in >> general ... do we have to do major patches ... what can we do ... > > It's BAD for those of us who are trying to offer backups for machines > that aren't centrally managed. > It was discussed a bit on -hackers in > 2004 - April and again in July. Solutions were suggested but never > agreed upon. One was to add another setuid to perform include > parsing. Another was to add include parsing to gnutar.
I don't remember that thread: - What exactly do you mean by "(not) centrally managed"? (I will dig up those threads later if necessary ...) >> Amanda 2.5.0 is near and I would really prefer to get it out without >> major problems in its source code. > > I haven't looked at 2.5.0 code to see if it's fixed there or not. I cc'd JLM on this, I assume he will know the answer ;-) Stefan
