On Thursday 01 August 2002 07:13, Trevor Fraser wrote: >Hi Gene, thank for your help. > >I used the rpm. Two questions, what is FQDN and does rsync only > apply to non-rpm install?
FQDN=Fully Qualified Doman Name. This doesn't have to be registered anyplace but the /etc/hosts files on the machines of your subnet as long as /etc/host.conf sets the search order to hosts,dns. I'm a bit lazy, and thats a lot easier than setting up a dns entry for it. The whole point being thats its a unique name and it translates to THAT machines nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn address, whereas every machine probably has a localhost@localdomain that alias's to 127.0.0.0, and thats whats known as a Bad Thing(TM) when you really meant that machine over there in the corner. :-) rsync isn't fussy, you can build it or use the rpm. I use it here in exactly that scenario as I keep several of the directories on my firewall machine mirrored here. rsync is very efficient in that it actually moves only that which has changed. If you update a file, adding 20 bytes to the middle of it, rsync, after doing the compare, moves those 20 bytes. It takes it about 10 minutes to scan and update a couple of gigs worth of stuff here, over a 10base-T network. Normally that machines monitor isn't turned on for days at a time, so other than up2date or gnorpm keeping the security stuff up to date, theres not a lot of activity. rsync is fairly security consious, so getting the setups on both machines to the point of its being a crontab job will take some reading and a few sessions with vim, but once thats done cron will take care of it from there and you can convieniently forget it. IIRC from the previous messages in this thread, you are still running amanda as root, and thats another no-no. IIRC the backup stuff will only run as the user amanda. If it won't run as amanda, then you need to add the user 'amanda', and if its the rpm's, make her a member of the group 'disk'. Getting all the perms setup is a one time job though. Unless you've changed the owner:group of some of the rpm's contents, this should all work. I guess thats one of the reasons I like the tarballs, you unpack them as root, chown the whole directory tree to amanda:disk, become amanda and build it, then install as root. That takes care of *all* the perms problems. Amanda has her own way of becoming root when she needs root perms to do something. My crontab entries to run her are in amanda's crontab, not roots. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.09% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
