Gene,
Sorry, I missed your message yesterday.
> ERROR: picnc: selfcheck request failed: file/dir '/usr/local/etc'
> (/usr/local/etc/amanda-security.conf) is writable by the group
> Client check: 5 hosts checked in 11.356 seconds. 5 problems found.
>
> ...
>
> The man page says its to be in /etc/amanda, but since this is a local
> build, its in /usr/local/etc/amanda.
First, I see a discrepancy: the error messge places the file
amanda-security.conf in /usr/local/etc while according to what you say
later about the man page, you expect it to be in /usr/local/etc/amanda
The error message is complaining about the mode of the directory, not
about the file. But mode on /usr/local/etc are not for Amanda only, it's
a system stuff, so it is not really realistic to change them.
So the solution was to move the file to /usr/local/etc/amanda, as
suggested by the man, where you can adjust the mode more to Amanda
linking.
To do that, I modified the Makefile in FreeBSD port to include the
option:
--with-security-file=/usr/local/etc/amanda/amanda-security.conf
[ In the case of FreeBSDm it was:
--with-security-file=${ETCDIR}/amanda/amanda-security.conf
I also informed the port maintener that there maybe a change needed]
I hope that helps.
Olivier
