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"Morse, Richard E.MGH" wrote: > Hi! I'm trying to upgrade my Amanda installation from a v2.6 to v3.2 via > ports. I had configured Amanda previously to be installed as the user > `operator`. The upgraded version wants to install as the user `amanda`; > however this presents all kinds of problems: > - the `amanda` user has no home directory, one is needed to put the > access file in > - I already have all of the directories set up as owned by operator > - I have a number of clients that are all set up to allow operator to > access them, but not "amanda". > > I have tried setting AMANDA_USER and AMANDA_GROUP to be `operator`, but this > then complains that `operator` is not found in `/usr/ports/GIDs` and > `/usr/ports/UIDs`. Since these are part of the base system, I don't want to > mess with them, so I groveled through the .mk files, and determined that I > should be able to provide my own user and group files by setting the > GID_FILES and UID_FILES environment variable. > > I tried this. I created the necessary files (greping out the data from > /etc/passwd and /etc/group), put them in the same directory as GIDs and > UIDs, and ran the make command: > > GID_FILES="/usr/ports/OP_GROUP" UID_FILES="/usr/ports/OP_USER" > AMANDA_USER="operator" AMANDA_GROUP="operator" make install > > This runs along for a while, then dies with the note: > > ** /usr/ports/OP_GROUP doesn't exist. Exiting. > *** Error code 1 > > > If I do a `less /usr/ports/OP_GROUP` (copying exactly from the error > message), I can see the file I created just fine. > > Is there something that I'm missing? How am I supposed to install a port as > a user that already exists? Why doesn't make see that the file exists? > Update your ports tree and try again. Let me know if it doesn't work! http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2011-August/224032.html Chris -- Chris Rees | FreeBSD Developer cr...@freebsd.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~crees _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"