On Thursday 01 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT 
>net> 
wrote:
>> Many many thanks for the hint, but it was confusing that it was the
>> Shop:/home/amanda/.amandahosts file I fixed, and not the
>> Shop:/home/backup/.amandahosts.
>
>Presumably backup's home directory (in /etc/passwd) is /home/amanda.
>Don't blame me, I'm not a kubuntu developer.
>
Humm, from /etc/passwd:

amanda:x:1001:6:...:/var/lib/amanda:/bin/bash
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh

some swahili there, must be time to re-read man 5 passwd.  Which says:
      /etc/passwd contains one line for each user account, with seven fields 
delimited by colons (“:”). These fields are:

       ·  login name

       ·  optional encrypted password

       ·  numerical user ID

       ·  numerical group ID

       ·  user name or comment field

       ·  user home directory

       ·  optional user command interpreter

/usr/lib/amanda and /var/backups? ? ?  And amanda has no username? ? ?

1. Shop:/var/lib/amanda is owned by backup:backup.  I don't recall if that 
was the installer, or me that made it so.  It works.

2. Shop:/var/backups contains only the dpkg.gz files.?

And fixing the file /home/amanda/.amandahosts made it work.

I think I need a 12 pack, or a gun loaded with gremlin killer bullets.

Unforch that beer _could_ kill me according to the propaganda that came with 
Metformin, which I was put on last week for my diabetes.  A  A1C=7.2  finally 
made him get out the script pad.  So now my limit really is 2 a day. 

-- 
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