On Fri May 16 2003 07:16, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>On Fri, 16 May 2003 at 6:24am, Gene Heskett wrote
>
>> At risk of starting a flame war here, the number of folks who
>> have made the rpms work is relatively miniscule.  Most build
>> from the tar.gz.  And version 2.4.2p2 is indeed pretty ancient,
>> the latest 2.4.4-snapshot_date versions having gained some new
>> features while maintaining backwards compatibility.  Get those
>> from Jean-Louis
>
>If you're not into running snapshots, there's also the released
> version of 2.4.4 at amanda.org.
>
Thanks, I should look more often I guess.  My nightly "tour" of the 
net includes Jean-Louis's site automaticly, but not the main site.

>> M.'s site at umontreal, link near the bottom of the page at
>> www.amanda.org.  I'm running the 20030428 version myself.
>> I highly recommend that you make a script out of your
>> configuration options used so that if you ever want to upgrade,
>> the same script can be reused, maintaining compatibility with
>> the older version each time you do this.
>
>A good idea.
>
>> I haven't posted mine for a month or so, and its not too long,
>> so here goes again, bearing in mind it needs edited for your
>> devices and IP addresses:
>> ----------------------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # since I'm always forgetting to su amanda...
>> if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then
>>      echo
>>      echo "!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!"
>>      echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user
>> amanda," echo "but must be installed by user root."
>
>Actually, amanda can be configured and built by anybody.  I always
> do it as myself.  It's just 'make install' that needs a
> particular user (root) to do it.

True Joshua, but if I do it as me, then I'm not a member of a group 
with enough perms, or my $PATH isn't right & not important enough 
to fix.  Users should be kept that way IMO, which is why I always 
make myself amanda to do the build.  Less mix_n-match surprises 
that way.  But as you say, thats a matter of personal prefs.  I run 
myself as root 99% of the time anyway, so the argument is pretty 
weak I have to admit.  But, if I should turn my wife loose on this 
machine, I'll log out and then see if she can do what she needs to 
do.  But she's pretty illiterate on computers so thats not even a 
monthly occurance, its one of my "honeydo's" usually.  Heck of a 
thing to say about a retired school (music) teacher, but its true & 
she will be the first to admit it.  :-)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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