Re: Amanda 2.6 rpms on Fedora 8 and a small bug in the amanda.spec

Thanks for reporting the problem. We are working on new packages that
will fix this problem. It will
be available soon.

Paddy

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Donald Murray, P.Eng.
<donaldm314 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm upgrading a fedora 8 client from 2.5.2p1-8.fc8 (installed from a stock
> fedora repo) to 2.6.0. I've only found 2.6.0 binary rpms for fedora 7 here,
> but no fedora 8:
> http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php
>
> I tried installing zmanda's amanda-backup_client-2.6.0-1.fc7.i386.rpm
> on fedora 8
> and it produced the following:
>
> warning: amanda-backup_client-2.6.0-1.fc7.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA
> signature: NOKEY, key ID 3c5d1c92
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> passwd: Unknown user name 'amandabackup'.
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56: Preparing to install: Amanda Community Edition -
> version 2.6.0
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56: Checking for 'amandabackup' user...
> useradd: unknown group -d
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
> WARNING! WARNING! !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!
>          !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!  The 'amandabackup' user account for this
> system has been   !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!  created, however the user has no password
> set. For   !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!  security purposes this account  is
> normally locked   !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!  after creation.  Unfortunately,  when
> locking this   !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!  account an error occurred.  To ensure the
> security   !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!  of your system  you should set a password
> for the   !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!  user account 'amandabackup' immediately!
> To set  such a   !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!  password, please issue the following
> command.:       !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!
>          !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!   # passwd amandabackup
>                !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!!
>          !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  !!! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
> WARNING! WARNING! !!!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  Checking ownership of '/var/lib/amanda'... incorrect!
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  Please ensure that the directory
> '/var/lib/amanda' is owned by
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:  the user 'amandabackup' and group 'disk'.
> Apr 23 2008 06:52:56:
> Please review '/var/log/amanda/install.err' to correct errors which
> have prevented the Amanda installaton.
> Amanda installation log can be found in '/var/log/amanda/install.log'
> and errors (if any) in '/var/log/amanda/install.err'.
> error: %pre(amanda-backup_client-2.6.0-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed,
> exit status 1
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
> amanda-backup_client-2.6.0-1.fc7
>
> The stock fedora 8 rpm used 'amanda' instead of 'amandabackup'. From the
> spec file in amanda-2.6.0-1.fc3.src.rpm I found:
> useradd -c "Amanda" -M -g ${amanda_group} -d %{AMANDAHOMEDIR} -s
> /bin/sh %{amanda_user}
>
> The '${amanda_group}' should be '%{amanda_group}'.
>
> I manually created the amandabackup user and locked the account. I
> then fixed the ownership
> of /var/lib/amanda and attempted the install again. This time it
> worked without errors.
>
> Hope this helps!
>



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