On Wednesday 03 October 2018 22:07:53 Olivier wrote:
> 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 physically moved the file to
/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda-security.conf, as shown in my last
post.
and modified my script to match.
configure still cannot find it.
> I also informed the port maintener that there maybe a change needed]
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Olivier
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