Amanda does need its own user to operate. You can create a new user, named Amanda, and make the user a part of the 'disk' group. This gives Amanda permission to do its stuff.
There's good information here... http://people.web.psi.ch/bearpark/mirror/frankenlinux.com/guides/amandaintro.html ...that discusses the Amanda user, and specific permissions that the Amanda user needs to have in order to operate effectively, as well as a good deal of additional advice. You can also check the docs directory of the source for more information. -- Thanks, Sak. On Sunday 31 August 2003 04:14 pm, Scott Phelps wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new subscriber and a new user of Amanda. I'm just getting it set up > and, I was reading through my new copy of Curtis Preston's book when I came > to the point where I need to issue the command: > # su amanda -c "amlabel DailySet-01 VOL1 slot 1" > > The problem is that nothing happens because (correct me if I'm wrong) su -c > will not work without that user having a shell account. I have all of my > config files set up, and i am really anxious to start using it. Could > somebody shed some light on how to use Amanda's commands? > > Thanks, > > Scott
