On Friday 02 October 2009, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 03:46, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> 
>wrote:
>> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote:
>>>On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:51:56 -0400
>>>
>>>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>>>> 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:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 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"?
>>>
>>>About the value of a political promise on election night.
>>>
>>>ccurley@dragon:~$ egrep amanda\|backup /etc/passwd
>>>backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
>>>ccurley@dragon:~$ grep amanda /etc/passwd
>>>ccurley@dragon:~$
>>
>> So you don't even have a user amanda, nor a /home/amanda directory...
>>
>> Interesting.  Bears further investigation I believe.  When I'm fresher.
>
>Debian and Ubuntu use the `backup' user. It's homedir is `/var/backups',
> and /var/backups/.amandahosts is a symlink to /etc/amandahosts.

So the non-linked files that I put in as /home/amanda/.amandahosts, and 
home/backup/.amandahosts are un-needed, and can be nuked.  Done, and amcheck 
is still happy.

>BTW, I never had issues with it (Debian user since long before I
>started using Amanda
>in 1997).

That was pretty prehistoric then.  And all I had to use with it in '98 was a 
4GB tape, whose brand memory was fleeting at best, those darned plastic 
drives liked to just rip the tape into little pieces.  This wasn't a DDS, but 
another with a cartridge a wee bit bigger than a DDS.  We bought 3 of then at 
the tv station, and only one, installed in an old NT-3.51 box, lasted more 
than a year.

Thanks Geert.

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