On Thursday 01 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >> Many many thanks for the hint, but it was confusing that it was the >> Shop:/home/amanda/.amandahosts file I fixed, and not the >> Shop:/home/backup/.amandahosts. > >Presumably backup's home directory (in /etc/passwd) is /home/amanda. >Don't blame me, I'm not a kubuntu developer.
See? Its sort of a now it can be told thing. But that brings up the question of who owns /home/amanda on such a (broken IMO) installation? Somebody should tell the debian/buntu folks that one user, amanda, is more than enough to make a good install. >> And that leaves my mind quite well confused about just who the heck owns >> what here. And I don't think this is something I can blame on alzheimers >> even if I will be 75 on Sunday. >> >> This bit of cross-correlation should be FAQ'd better, or a manpage on >> amandahosts written that covers all this. I note that manpage is >> conspiciously absent. > >The overall problem you faced here is due to different distros >building Amanda differently, and there's no simple way to document >that that wouldn't change daily as distros changed. However, an >amandahosts manpage would be a good thing. Do you want to write one? >I think there's some info in amanda(8) already, but a separate manpage >is a good idea. I agree, as long as it doesn't lead to a lot of duplication in maintaining it. >Dustin > Obviously I don't know enough about it to write it. You just saw the evidence of that. :( Lets see, this is 2009, which means I've been running amanda for a decade now, but always in my own isolated, little, occasionally warped world. Thanks Dustin. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> The all-softening overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul, -- the dinner bell. -- Lord Byron
