Bdale Garbee wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 18:30 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Automatically configuring amanda is not policy compliant for the moment >> as one needs to edit conffiles in the process. Debian-Edu for instance >> wants to touch etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf, >> etc/amanda/DailySet1/disklist and etc/amandahosts. >> >> A solution might be to include some file if it exists in the >> configuration... > > There is nothing magic about the delivered sample configuration files. > > The easiest solution for you would be to just ignore the DailySet1 stuff > that is delivered, and create your own configuration from scratch in > the /etc/amanda directory, for example: > > /etc/amanda/Debian-EDU/amanda.conf > /etc/amanda/Debian-EDU/disklist > > Then you can craft whatever cron entries you want, specifying Debian-EDU > instead of DailySet1 as the configuration to use.
Thanks for the information. > You still have to touch /etc/amandahosts on each client system, of > course, but I'm not sure what we could do to make that any easier? A solution would be to create that file in the maintainerscripts so it's not a conffile... or to ask a debconf question... Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D
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