On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote:
>On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:58:48 -0400
>
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> See?  Its sort of a now it can be told thing.  But that brings up the
>> question of who owns /home/amanda on such a (broken IMO) installation?
>
>Actually, nobody owns it; it doesn't exist on a standard Ubuntu
>installation. From my unchanged Ubuntu client installation:
>
>root@dzur:/var# grep backup /etc/passwd
>backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
>root@dzur:/var#

Oookaaay, what do you get from a "grep amanda /etc/passwd"?

Yeah, this might be a 2 beer night yet. :(

Thanks Charles

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