On Friday 16 May 2003 11:23 am, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:45:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Fri May 16 2003 07:16, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> >On Fri, 16 May 2003 at 6:24am, Gene Heskett wrote
>> >
>> >> 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.
>
>But Gene,
>you run things from scripts.  PATHs can be set in scripts too.
>In fact, some would argue that they should be reset in the script
> so there are no surprises by running unanticipated versions of
> programs.

Ya got me there Jon :)

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