On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:22:16PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> - configure and make as $AMANDAUSER

I don't believe this is necessary.  One should avoid building
Amanda as root, but that's not because it'll cause problems for
Amanda; it's for the same reason one should avoid building
*anything* as root.

I've never had a problem building Amanda under my own user
account, and it's hard to see why such a problem might ever
occur.

> make install as root

This *is* necessary, of course.

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