Q to others: does the client have to have the same username and locations as the server?
A to you: for my own peace of mind and ease of finding things, I personally would rebuild it from scratch. But I only know about RedHat. Then again, you are already used to building from scratch, so …. Deb Baddorf > On Apr 13, 2017, at 2:53 PM, Chris Hoogendyk <hoogen...@bio.umass.edu> wrote: > > I have a group of amanda servers and clients that are all Ubuntu 14.04 with > amanda 3.3.6 installed from source with ssh config and user amanda. > > Now I'm trying to set up a new client that is Ubuntu 16.04. I saw that the > aptitude had amanda 3.3.6, common, server, and client packages. So, I > thought, hey, that will make things easy. > > Not. > > So, it seems they built the package with user backup, home directory > /var/backups, and shell /usr/sbin/nologin. There doesn't seem to be any > readme or install or configure instructions anywhere explaining how it has > been built and how it has to be set up to function. I had assumed it would be > largely ready to go, with instructions on what configuration remained to be > done. > > I also haven't been able to find much of anything through google. > > Does anyone have any guidance on this? Or should I just rip it out and build > from source? Amanda is one of the few things that I have continued to build > from source since I switched from Solaris to Ubuntu several years ago. All > the other major packages get patches and security updates fairly regularly, > so it pays to stick with aptitude. > > > -- > --------------- > > Chris Hoogendyk > > - > O__ ---- Systems Administrator > c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geosciences Departments > (*) \(*) -- 315 Morrill Science Center > ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst > > <hoogen...@bio.umass.edu> > > --------------- > > Erdös 4 >
