On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:10, stan wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:53:37AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:42:44AM -0400, stan wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:42:17PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>> > > On 2006-04-12 12:27, stan wrote:
>> > > >Again, I've never done that in the past. I've just made ceratin
>> > > > that the amanda user exists,
>> > > >and done the build/make install as root. Permissions have
>> > > > alwasy been fine.
>> > > >
>> > > >Having sad that, I'll rebuild the whole thing today using
>> > > > FQDB's, and building as amanda, then
>> > > >installing as root.
>> > >
>> > > It is not important as who you build  -- root is no problem (but
>> > > security minded sysadmins avoid doing things as root unless
>> > > needed). But the "make install" should be done as root.
>> > >
>> > > Then subsequently, you should not RUN the program as root
>> > > (except amrecover, which should be run as root), because when
>> > > running the first time, Amanda creates some files.  When doing
>> > > that as root - even only once - those files are owned by root
>> > > instead of the amanda user and you run into trouble next time.
>> >
>> > Right, we are good on that.
>> >
>> > > >BTW, speaking of rebuilding amanda, it would be nice if there
>> > > > were a "make no-overwrite
>> > > >confgis" option.
>> > >
>> > > "make install" does not install, nor overwrite any config file.
>> > > No need to disable that non-existing feature.
>> >
>> > I just foudn that out, to my pleasent suprise.
>> >
>> > In any case, I rebuilt uinsg FQDN's, and I still have these
>> > problems, An amcheck reports:
>>
>> Did your rebuild also involve rerunning "configure"?
>
>Yes, esentialy "make distclean ; ./run_configure ; make ; su - make
> install

Stan, see the script below.  You don't just "./configure" amanda, it 
needs some arguments such as these in my script.

#!/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."
        echo
        exit 1
fi
make clean
rm -f config.status config.cache
./configure --with-user=amanda \
 --with-group=disk \
 --with-owner=amanda \
 --with-gnu-ld \
 --prefix=/usr/local \
 --with-tapedev="FILE:/amandatapes" \
 --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \
 --with-tape-server=coyote \
 --with-amandahosts \
 --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda \
 --with-config=Daily \
 --with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/tar

make
=================
Now obviously some of the above will need massaging in your favorite 
editor, so check the accuracy of every line above to make sure its 
right for *your* system.

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