On Monday 13 May 2019 03:04:23 pm Winston Sorfleet wrote:

> AFAIK amanda always ran as "backup" under Debian, which caused some
> unexpected side effects fir the home directory.
>
Can you elaborate?  I have never ran the distro version on the server, 
this machine, but I have run the distro clients on the other 4 machines. 
And you could be right, I think they do run as backup on the others. So 
I'm checking the passwd files on the others, a mixture of wheezy anf one 
jessie install on a pi 3b.
The first machine alphabeticly
GO704 32 bit wheezy, has no amandabackup in its passwd file, next
lathe 32 bit wheezy, has an amandabackup user 63988 it its passwd file, 
next
shop 32 bit wheezy, has an amandabackup user 63988 in its passwd file, 
next
picnc armhf jessie has no amandabackup user

Then checking /homes only shop, the newest wheezy install because I put 
an SSD in it when I moved it to drive a different nachine, has 
a /home/amanda dir thats empty, all the other have only my home dir 
in /home, so there's a remarkable lack of consistency.

Those that do have an amandabacup user, also have /var/lib/amanda as home 
dir, and /bin/sh as login
All the backups are user 34, with /var/backups as home dirs, and /bin/sh 
as login

And there is NOT a /var/backup directory that actually exists in the 
list.

Now maybe we get to it, I become backup and run the amcheck Daily, and I 
have no rights to create a log file of any kind in /var/log/amanda AND 
I, backup, OWN THE WHOLE TREE!  Wth? And its all 040700 perms.

And I'd better see if I can con my lady into eating something. COPD is 
starving her to death.

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