On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:09, Dana Bourgeois wrote: >Gene, no QIC drive and amcheck ran fine. Thank you for responding > on this point.
Good. >Re: your previous post about making and installing Amanda. I know > the rule of thumb is to 'make install' as root but the Amanda > INSTALL file doesn't say that. I think that should be fixed and > I'll be happy to send in a proposed change if someone will tell me > where it should go. Yes, I'm somewhat surprised that this has not made it to the INSTALL file. >Second thing is that if one does run 'make install' non-root, it > runs just fine but the installer can't change the owner which > screws up the SUID stuff. It wouldn't be too hard to fix this > either and again, I'll be happy to forward a proposed change. > Probably just a check that the EUID is root before running the > first command. OTOH, if you become root, one can fix all the owner:group stuff to match the rest of the system in one swell foop, and a rerun of the make install will then fix the rest of it. IMO not a lot of trouble, it can all be fixed in 30 seconds, and it teaches us to do it right the next time... >Lastly, a SUID script that fixes up the permissions if they get > hosed would be a nice addition to the package and in fact, there is > probabaly a lot of other sanity checking and correction that could > be bundled into it over time. If this idea has some backing, I'll > take a shot at this one also. Basically I'd pull the stuff from the > 'make install' into a separate script that could be put into > 'libexec'. See above. >Dana Bourgeois [...] -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
