On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 19:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > Not required. Building from sources is the prefered method to the > majority of this group's readers.
I personally prefer to use the source, but it really depends upon what you want. The RedHat prebuilt rpms from RH themselfs are perfectly ok and are prebuilt with all the correct permissions set. Also it really depends upon you're software accounting (the company I work for require me to make rpm.specs if I happen to want to install any programs that are not rpms, as they can easily remove or upgrade them with only 1 easy line.) But if *you* want control, then do as Gene says and use the source or Download the amanda rpms from RH. If you are using up2date then just issue: /usr/sbin/up2date amanda-server amanda-client. (this gets them all and will allow you to backup you're tape server as well, for the clients, just get amanda-client) or get them from here: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ (just alter you're Distro number) Mark -- --- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
