Greetings; I have just been thru a week of hell trying to make a working amanda installation from the current "stable" tarball, something I have been doing routinely for in excess of a decade.
I was stymied on three fronts. 1. in the process of doing all this, after adding the amanda entries to /etc/passwd and /etc/group by hand, I had Authorization failures, reported to the terminal screen with an (ignored) appended. That turned out to be because pwconv had not been run to update /etc/shadow. 2. Swig2 is not part of the default install from the hybride.iso, and the ./configure for building amanda fails. Only a very small error in the config log about it, whereas IMO the ./configure should have treated it as a show stopper. Reported to the amanda list of course. There is of course lots of room, in the iso to add that the next time the iso is refreshed/baked. 3. The su command supplied is broken in that it does not appear to make an attempt to give the su amanda user, the environment that the user amanda has if logged in as amanda. This in turn makes it extremely difficult to troubleshoot the problems when the environment you get from the 'su amanda -c "command" is totally fubar'd but if the amanda crontab entry does it, its all cool as it does get the right environment. Is this "su" problem bothering anyone else? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
