installed 3.3.9 from stretch repos

2019-05-13 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I think I have it almost configured, amcheck reports one error as follows: manda@coyote:/GenesAmandaHelper-0.61$ /usr/sbin/amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /usr/dumps: 1533056 MB disk space available, using 1532556 MB slot 1: cont

RE: installed 3.3.9 from stretch repos

2019-05-13 Thread Chris Hassell
> But, changing user to amanda is not yet completed, after changing the > amanda file in /etc/xinetd.d to user=amanda and restarting xinetd, I get this > at the end of an amcheck: > WARNING: coyote: selfcheck request failed: tcpm_recv_token: invalid > size: "amandad: must be executed as the \"ba

Re: installed 3.3.9 from stretch repos

2019-05-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 May 2019 12:53:22 pm Chris Hassell wrote: > > But, changing user to amanda is not yet completed, after changing > > the amanda file in /etc/xinetd.d to user=amanda and restarting > > xinetd, I get this at the end of an amcheck: > > > > WARNING: coyote: selfcheck request failed: tcpm_r

Re: installed 3.3.9 from stretch repos

2019-05-13 Thread Winston Sorfleet
AFAIK amanda always ran as "backup" under Debian, which caused some unexpected side effects fir the home directory. On May 13, 2019 2:05:36 PM EDT, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Monday 13 May 2019 12:53:22 pm Chris Hassell wrote: > >> > But, changing user to amanda is not yet completed, after changing

Re: installed 3.3.9 from stretch repos -- official Debian packaging

2019-05-13 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 16:53:22 +, Chris Hassell wrote: > Where was this built? Was it the default-from-debian? I may pull > that apart to see how they decided it should be built by default. Yes, I have been wanting to suggest that as you work on cleaning up the Amanda-provided Debian packa

Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git

2019-05-13 Thread Charles Curley
I can build and install. Hurrah! I have a script that builds a runtime environment for amanda, including building some vtapes. When I run that, all seems to run well, until I go to build my vtape slots with amlabel. then I get a loop of: -- 21 Can't

Re: installed 3.3.9 from stretch repos

2019-05-13 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 12:42:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > > WARNING: coyote: selfcheck request failed: Connection refused <-- > Client check: 5 hosts checked in 10.010 seconds. 1 problem found. > > (brought to you by Aman

Re: installed 3.3.9 from stretch repos

2019-05-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 May 2019 03:04:23 pm Winston Sorfleet wrote: > AFAIK amanda always ran as "backup" under Debian, which caused some > unexpected side effects fir the home directory. > Can you elaborate? I have never ran the distro version on the server, this machine, but I have run the distro client

Re: installed 3.3.9 from stretch repos

2019-05-13 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 18:37:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > All the backups are user 34, with /var/backups as home dirs, and /bin/sh > as login Right. If you are running the official Debian package, that's the user you care about. > And there is NOT a /var/backup directory that actually exi

Re: Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git

2019-05-13 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 14:36:09 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > The short of it is that JSON.pm is not in my @INC. It has been > installed, at /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1/Amanda/Report/. But that > does not appear to be in my @INC array. In my installation (Amanda 1:3.5.1-4~WIP+4 built for Ubuntu

Re: Building amanda on Debian 9 from git

2019-05-13 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
(Sorry, I just noticed the separate thread on the topic of Debian package building.) On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 12:36:55 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I now get > > -- > dh_fixperms -v >> /home/charles/amanda/build/debian/dpkg.log 2>&1 > # fix perms m

Re: installed 3.3.9 from stretch repos -- official Debian packaging

2019-05-13 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 16:18:36 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > Anyway, the place to look for Debian-specific changes would be in the > Salsa repository: > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/amanda/debian Also, it may be useful to look at the buildd logs (e.g. to search for "./configure"