On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:07:25PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote: > > No. My personal account is NOT a member of the > disk/operator/backup/whatever group. Amanda doesn't *run* as me; > I did the usual -- created an "amanda" account and configured the > package with: > --with-user=amanda --with-group=<system-dependent-value> > > My only question was why people find it useful to "configure > --many-options; make" Amanda as that user, instead of as > themselves. >
Some of the software will be running as amanda_user. I prefer to to do the configure and build as amanda_user so that the PATH and other environment settings (umask, etc.) are set as they will when the backups run. Same for doing the creation of a configuration directory, amanda.conf, ... Do them with the same settings things will run with. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
