On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:22:56PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:05:29AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>I have set up a client for amanda to backup. The amanda server runs as 
> >>user backup, so I set up the client to be run by backup as well. I am 
> >>getting errors in my amanda main report:
> >>
> >>moe        /tmp/rt3.backup lev 0 FAILED [disk /tmp/rt3.backup, all 
> >>estimate failed]
> >>
> >>
> >>In the sendsize log I see the following line:
> >>
> >>runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Looks like the executable was compiled with the default amanda user, 
> >"amanda".
> >Thus, it expects to be run only by a user named amanda.
> >
> >After compile you decided to name the amanda user "backup".
> >The excutables on the client must be compiled to know of this.
> >
> >  configure --with-?user?=backup ...
> >
> >(Not certain of the exact "with" option).
> >
> > 
> >
> Actually I just used yum to install the amanda-client, so there was no 
> compiling involved. So I assume that I need to use a tarball if the 
> username is not amanda, then?
> 

Don't know yum.

Do some of those pre-built packages have a way of specifying
local preferences?  Or is that only with the source packages.

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