On February 7 2003, "Chris Broadwater" wrote:

> I was going through the install of Amanda 2.3.4 and during the Configure
> the process errored out with the following line
>
> configure: error: *** --user-USER is missing
>
> Any ideas what I missed.  I figured this is a minor issue and caused by an
> oversight on my behalf

You need to tell the configure script what user Amanda will be running as.

--with-user=<someuser> is a mandatory argument to the configure script.

"The Chapter" explains how to configure and compile Amanda in great detail.
It is available on line:
        http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html

In particular, you'll want this bit:
        http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-6.html

-Ben

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Benjamin Lewis <bhlewis AT purdue DOT edu>
Database Analyst/Programmer
IT Security - Computing Accounts
Purdue University