+----[ To Toomas Aas <fernan AT iib.unsam.edu DOT ar> (13.Oct.2004 16:26):
|

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| | Further, the directory listing below shows that files owned by operator 
| | are dated Sep 28, whereas files owned by amanda are dated Sep 30.
| | 
| | This leads me to think that you have somehow made two installations on 
| | top of each other, first one without specifying AMANDA_USER on Sep 28 
| | and second one by specifying AMANDA_USER=amanda on Sep 30. Do you have 
| | FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in /etc/make.conf?
| 
| No, I don't have FORCE_PKG_REGISTER set. And yes, though, I
| don't remember well, it is possible that I installed first
| without setting AMANDA_USER (defaulted to operator) and then
| installed again, now setting AMANDA_USER to the value I wanted.
| 
| | Probably easiest way to get everything working correctly would be 
| | pkg_deleting the Amanda ports and installing them again. However, if 
| | the permissions of some files to be deleted are not what the ports 
| | system expects, it may still leave them behind. So make sure you get 
| | them before doing another install.
| |
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| 
| OK. I'll make sure to remove everything before reinstalling.
| 
| Thanks for the suggestion!
|
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For the record, I have removed everything and reinstalled
and everything is working. The confusion was mine. In
FreeBSD there are two amanda ports: amanda-server and
amanda-client, since the server needs also to be configured
as a client, I installed the amanda-client port on top of
the amanda-server port (which, by itself also includes the
'client' part ... this I didn't know). This would have been
harmless ... but seems like I forgot to set
AMANDA_USER=amanda in the second install.

Thanks to all who replied and helped,

Fernan

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