On Sat, 25 May 2019 17:16:55 -0400 Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> git clone $$$$$$$$$$ please. What I got from github last required i > completely redo my paaswd and group files and still insisted it was > amandabackup. > I just checked the first client machine and there is only backup in > either group or passwd. So there's never been an amandabackup on > those wheezy nachines, Thats straight debian built clients, right > straight from the debian repos. Thats why this amandabackup as the > user was a total surprise to me. Serves zero useful purpose and > breaks compatibility all over the place. All the clients use one > access control file the lives in /var/backups/.amandahosts and is > softlinked to /etc/amandahosts. And contains: Gene, do *NOT* mix the zmanda debian packages and the official debian packages. Even after doing "apt purge". You will get yourself into a dependency hell that Steve Ballmer would admire. If you are accustomed to using one, and insist on playing with another, use one or more freshly minted virtual machines. Even doing that I ran into some of the same surprises and problems you are hitting. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit the meaning of the word to its mere embellishments, such as arts and sciences; but the true distinction between it and barbarism is, that the one presents a state of society under the protection of just and well-administered law, and the other is left to the chance government of brute force." - The Rev. James White, Eighteen Christian Centuries, 1889 Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB https://charlescurley.com
