Am Montag, den 31.10.2005, 08:59 -0400 schrieb Gene Heskett: Hi Gene! Thanks for that detailed answer.
> >In /root/.amandahosts is an entry 'localhost root'. > > Wrong location for the .amandahosts file. It should be in the > $home/$user directory whom amanda runs as. The FAQ discusses this > (whats wrong with building and running amanda as root) I believe. My user is "backup" and he has an .amandahosts file in his home directory. > If you built and installed amanda as root, then rip it all out, nuke the > src dir, then do an adduser amanda and make this user a member of the > group disk or backup (whatever your machine uses for those disk related > tasks) then do an su amanda, untar a fresh copy of the src tree, recopy > your config script into that directory and re-exec that script, which in > my case finishes up with a make, all done as the user amanda. Then > become root again and reinstall it. The permissions will now be > correct. I've installed a debian package so that I don't know what build options were chosen at build time. Can I check this anywhere? I don't whant to build amanda from source. Greetings Thomas
