On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:16, Graeme Humphries wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:03 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote:
>> How are tapeserver and indexserver defined then?
>> They can't know at build
>> time what that server is.

But they must, else it doesn't work, see below.  This is also some 
part of amanda's security, preventing somebody from acting as a proxy 
and thereby obtaining enough info to own the system.
>
>Debian ships two amanda packages, amanda-server and amanda-client.
> The stuff in amanda-server I believe has these default to
> localhost, since if course you'd only install that package on the
> server. Amanda-client contains things that don't care, from what I
> recall.
>
>> You can use amanda packages from RH as is, but
>> it's not the recommended way of doing things since they have to
>> use localhost.
>
>What's wrong with using localhost?

Because the recovery programs must know the FQDN of the server and 
with everybody being localhost@localdomain, how are you going to find 
the real server?  Good question, that.

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