Hi, On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 07:29 -0500, bluethundr wrote: > [amandabackup@amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amcheck > -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 68624 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amcheck Unless the backup user is in the disk group it has no permissions on this file. > Although I'm not sure what the 's' indicates in the permissions of amcheck. Setuid, run the executable as the owner (root in this case). Running root setuid binaries is a dangerous practice and can open all kinds of holes in your system. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos