On Tuesday 08 July 2003 16:58, Broderick Wood wrote: >I am wanting (for ease of mass installation) to use the RedHat RPMs > to install the Amanda Client, but we use an alternate user/group. > Is there any "easy" way to do this changeover? We can easily fix > the files in /etc/xinetd.d but the RPM install the files as user > "amanda" and group "disk" and we don't want that. Do we just need > to go and change the ownership AFTER the RPM install or is there an > option to the rpm install that would do this for us? > >Any help would be appreciated.
Why not? Its an excelent strategy to do so. First, if you have intentions of installing it as root, that won't work. End of discussion. So whats so hard about adding a user "amanda" to all systems, and making amanda a member of group "disk"? Heck I build it from tarballs as soon as Jean-Louis releases the next snapshot, and because it just plain works, I've had no urge or reason to change those although I do specify them in my configure script. That download, configure, build and install takes about 6 minutes here. I'm not too sure installing the rpm would be that much faster. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
