On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:40:06AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote:
> I have lost the original post on this.  But how will options such as
> --with-udp-ports, etc... be done in a pre-built?  Could be important for
> firewallers.  I guess a certian range could be specified and documented.

At least in the Debian package no port range is given at all, i.e. any
random UDP port must be allowed which made my firewall admin (once more)
grumble about the "unusual" network protocol amanda uses ("even worse
than ftp"). But since both source and destination IPs are well-known and
fixed, the security implications can probably be accepted.

Below is the build information from the Debian package, as gets recorded
in the amdump.n log file:

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build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.2p2"
       BUILT_DATE="Tue Apr 2 21:24:21 UTC 2002"
       BUILT_MACH="Linux cyberhq 2.4.18pre2 #1 SMP Tue Jan 8 18:13:43 PST 2002 
i686 unknown"
       CC="gcc"
paths: bindir="/usr/sbin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
       libexecdir="/usr/lib/amanda" mandir="/usr/share/man"
       AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda" AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda"
       CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/"
       RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/r" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
       RESTORE="/sbin/restore" SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient"
       GNUTAR="/bin/tar" COMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip"
       UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip" MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
       listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
       DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost"
       DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
       LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
       AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS
       CLIENT_LOGIN="backup" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
       COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
       COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
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Greetings,
Martin.