From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 9 07:55:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA27724 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 07:55:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA27522 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 07:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA16518; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 10:54:20 -0500 To: Pablo Quintana Cc: "amanda-users@amanda.org" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , Brian Topping Subject: Re: I screwed up with Amanda ./configure? References: <199812091523.JAA07414@mail.netsys.hn> From: Chris Shenton Date: 09 Dec 1998 10:54:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: Pablo Quintana's message of Wed, 09 Dec 98 09:24:29 -0500 Message-ID: <86emq95n0z.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pablo Quintana writes: > I think I did something wrong, I ran: > ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=operator --with-tape-device= > /dev/nrst0 --with-amandahosts --with-fqdn --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda -- > without-amplot > Without having the user amanda in the operator group. Also I did'nt run it > as root, is that bad? Can I delete the whole amanda directory and start > again? I tar xvf the amanda tarball in /home/quintana/amanda/ , will that > cause some trouble? > > I'm sorry for asking too much but my heart beats fast each time I issue a > command, because this is a working mail server. The "./configure" just operates in the source directory so if you've got write privs there you won't need to be root. I usually configure and compile as myself, then switch to root to "make install". I think the configure will be OK without the user in the group, but it won't install or run properly until you add the user to the group. (FreeBSD used to *not* have user "operator" in group "operator" and this screwed me up for quite some time until I realized it.) Amanda rox! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message