On Friday 02 October 2009, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 03:46, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote: >>>On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:51:56 -0400 >>> >>>Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote: >>>> >On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:58:48 -0400 >>>> > >>>> >Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> 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? >>>> > >>>> >Actually, nobody owns it; it doesn't exist on a standard Ubuntu >>>> >installation. From my unchanged Ubuntu client installation: >>>> > >>>> >r...@dzur:/var# grep backup /etc/passwd >>>> >backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh >>>> >r...@dzur:/var# >>>> >>>> Oookaaay, what do you get from a "grep amanda /etc/passwd"? >>> >>>About the value of a political promise on election night. >>> >>>ccur...@dragon:~$ egrep amanda\|backup /etc/passwd >>>backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh >>>ccur...@dragon:~$ grep amanda /etc/passwd >>>ccur...@dragon:~$ >> >> So you don't even have a user amanda, nor a /home/amanda directory... >> >> Interesting. Bears further investigation I believe. When I'm fresher. > >Debian and Ubuntu use the `backup' user. It's homedir is `/var/backups', > and /var/backups/.amandahosts is a symlink to /etc/amandahosts.
So the non-linked files that I put in as /home/amanda/.amandahosts, and home/backup/.amandahosts are un-needed, and can be nuked. Done, and amcheck is still happy. >BTW, I never had issues with it (Debian user since long before I >started using Amanda >in 1997). That was pretty prehistoric then. And all I had to use with it in '98 was a 4GB tape, whose brand memory was fleeting at best, those darned plastic drives liked to just rip the tape into little pieces. This wasn't a DDS, but another with a cartridge a wee bit bigger than a DDS. We bought 3 of then at the tv station, and only one, installed in an old NT-3.51 box, lasted more than a year. Thanks Geert. -- 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> Keep on keepin' on.
