With Amanda 2.4.2 the exclude files didn't need to be readable by the
amanda user. The exclude files are only used by tar which runs as
root anyway.
In 2.4.3 the exclude files are read (in order to merge the other
exclude entries ?) and the written to
/tmp/amanda/sendbackup.*.exclude. This file is
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> With Amanda 2.4.2 the exclude files didn't need to be readable by the
> amanda user. The exclude files are only used by tar which runs as
> root anyway.
>
> In 2.4.3 the exclude files are read (in order to merge the other
> exclude en
>
> > I had only-root-readable index files, and the generated exlcude file
> > was empty.
> >
> > IMHO amcheck should check that the exclude files on the client are
> > readable.
>
> It should, unless you specified them to be optional.
It would seem to me that even if they are optional, if pr
Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> > With Amanda 2.4.2 the exclude files didn't need to be readable by the
> > amanda user. The exclude files are only used by tar which runs as
> > root anyway.
> >
> > In 2.4.3 the ex
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:21:25PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > > I had only-root-readable index files, and the generated exlcude file
> > > was empty.
> > >
> > > IMHO amcheck should check that the exclude files on the client are
> > > readable.
> >
> > It should, unless you spec
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:04:46PM +0100, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> > >
> > > IMHO amcheck should check that the exclude files on the client are
> > > readable.
> >
> > It should, unle
