On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Toomas Aas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wed, 25 Feb 2015 kirjutas Michael Stauffer <[email protected]>: > > >> Directories: >> Application: /usr/local/libexec/amanda/application >> Configuration: /usr/local/etc/amanda >> GNU Tar lists: /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists >> Perl modules (amperldir): /usr/local/share/perl5 >> Template and example data files (amdatadir): /usr/local/share/amanda >> Temporary: /tmp/amanda >> WARNINGS: >> no user specified (--with-user) -- using 'amanda' >> no group specified (--with-group) -- using 'backup' >> >> >> These are different dir locations than amanda 3.3.4 which I've been using >> until now. Is this b/c I've built from source or is that a change >> effecting >> rpm's too (not that it seems likely they'd be different I figure). >> > > As you deduced, this is probably because of different installation method > (source vs rpm). Whoever supplied the RPMs that you previously used, had > them set up with different configuration settings. > > >> The default user and group is now amanda:backup instead of >> amandabackup:disk. If I want to use this server with existing clients >> running 3.3.4 is this ok? Or should I rebuild with user amandabackup:disk? >> Or upgrade clients to 3.3.7? >> > > The user and group used on the server do not need to be the same as on > clients. You can continue using the existing clients. > > Thanks everyone for the replies. I'll probably just go with what I have since it doesn't seem to matter. -M
