On Sunday 08 September 2002 15:23, Brian Jonnes wrote: >On Sun 08 Sep 02 15:34, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Then, if you are sure the kernels ide-scsi support is working, >> I'm of the opinion that this drive should be taken to a winderz >> box, and the software on the cd that came with it be used to >> verify that it is indeed working. I've had quite a bit of >> trouble with a > >Will do that. > >> Things like where does it keep its configs, what are its >> owner:group settings, and anything else that I set in a script I >> use to do the configuration: > >Yeah got all that. Almost there. Just gotta add a few patches > (Debian stores dumpdates in /var/lib and amandates in > /var/lib/amanda). The configure scripts were screwing me around; > autoconf was getting re-called (because a Makefile.am file had > been patched), and it was dumping bogus Makefiles in the source > tree. Got around that by making sure the date of Makefile.am > didn't get changed.... > >> Remember, amanda is configured and built as the user amanda, but >> must be installed by root. > >This is where debian is a little different. Build it as whoever. > Package it with "fakeroot", install it as root.
Humm, "fakeroot"? Odd indeed. Not saying its wrong, but... Whats this fakeroot do? For *most* systems, amanda should be built by the user thats going to run it from that users crontab. But amanda does its own su- when the time comes, and in order for all the perms to be set right, root must install, same as your's. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.14% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
