Gene, no QIC drive and amcheck ran fine.  Thank you for responding on this
point.

Re: your previous post about making and installing Amanda.  I know the rule
of thumb is to 'make install' as root but the Amanda INSTALL file doesn't
say that.  I think that should be fixed and I'll be happy to send in a
proposed change if someone will tell me where it should go.

Second thing is that if one does run 'make install' non-root, it runs just
fine but the installer can't change the owner which screws up the SUID
stuff.  It wouldn't be too hard to fix this either and again, I'll be happy
to forward a proposed change.  Probably just a check that the EUID is root
before running the first command.

Lastly, a SUID script that fixes up the permissions if they get hosed would
be a nice addition to the package and in fact, there is probabaly a lot of
other sanity checking and correction that could be bundled into it over
time.  If this idea has some backing, I'll take a shot at this one also.
Basically I'd pull the stuff from the 'make install' into a separate script
that could be put into 'libexec'.


Dana Bourgeois


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:43 AM
> To: Dana Bourgeois; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Problem configuring amanda before compiling
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 00:36, Dana Bourgeois wrote:
> >Answered my own question once I had time to dig a little.
> >
> >You need to have the readline-devel rpm installed as well as the  
> >readline rpm.
> >
> >No one came forward about the QIC tape warning but I will 
> know after  I 
> >configure the disk 'tapes' and run an amdump if it's a problem.
> 
> If you don't actually have a QIC drive, they can be ignored.  Its an 
> option to turn on when compiling a new kernel IIRC.
> 
> The problem finder isn't amdump per sei, but amcheck, which will scan 
> the system and check the install, reporting warnings (which can be 
> ignoored, and errors that will stop the amdump.  Errors must be 
> fixed.
> 
> >
> >Dana Bourgeois
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> >> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Dana Bourgeois
> >> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 6:44 PM
> >> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> >> Subject: Problem configuring amanda before compiling
> >>
> >>
> >> On RedHat, I didn't run into this.  Now I'm on SsSE8.1 and the 
> >> ./configure gives me a warning that I don't have a 
> terminal library 
> >> for interactive amrecover nor do I have the vtblc stuff needed for 
> >> QIC tape support. Possibly I don't care.  I'm going to use 
> the file: 
> >> driver with this installation and the chg-multi tape 
> changer.  I have 
> >> the readline package installed.
> >>
> >> Anyone know if I care about these warnings and if so, 
> which packages 
> >> I need to tickle YaST to install for me?  Please believe 
> that I have 
> >> already tried searching by package name and installed several 
> >> packages that looked pertinent but didn't make these warnings go 
> >> away, (ummm... I just reran ./configure - I didn't see 
> anything that 
> >> would remove/invalidate/unconfigure the previous ./configure step).
> >>
> >> Clues gratefully accepted.
> >>
> >>
> >> Dana Bourgeois
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
> AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
> Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
> 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly 
> Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by 
> Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, 
> all rights reserved.
> 
>