On Thursday 11 September 2014 13:19:14 Debra S Baddorf did opine And Gene did reply: > I agree. I always build amanda myself. [ My package seems okay when > I have ROOT build it and install it …. I don’t think I’ve changed > anything to allow that to work. Hmm. I do remember reading that my > amanda user (operator for me) was supposed to build it. ] > > A comment about the configure settings: > > ./configure --with-user=amanda \ > > > > --with-group=disk \ > > --with-owner=amanda \ > > --with-gnu-ld \ > > --prefix=/usr/local/ \ > > --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ > > --with-tape-server=coyote \ > > --with-bsdtcp-security --with-amandahosts \ > > --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda \ > > --with-gnutar=/usr/bin/tar > > Since I have clients of several ages and varying amanda versions … > I’ve discovered that you can have all three of the security types > enabled and used by differing clients: > --with-bsd-security \ > --with-krb5-security \ > --with-bsdtcp-security \ is default so I guess I don’t explicitly > add that line, but it’s a good idea to do so
I was not aware of that, but then my system is a pretty small model compared to many on this list. I would not be surprised to find that Brian C. has in excess of 50 spindles scattered over nearly that many clients, as do you at Fermi. Fortunately, amanda scales exceedingly well. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
