From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 20:12:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9BC16A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E5243FB1 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.220]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:15:23 -0500 Message-ID: <3F8B6987.8020307@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:12:07 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michelle References: <4AA69343-FDE0-11D7-A990-000393843210@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <4AA69343-FDE0-11D7-A990-000393843210@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2003 03:15:23.0953 (UTC) FILETIME=[68550210:01C39201] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing amanda from ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:12:52 -0000 Michelle wrote: > I'm trying to install amanda from the ports collection. Before > running make, the amanda instructions state to run ./configure > --with-user=amanda --with-group=backup to change the default > configuration. How do you do this with FreeBSD? I've tried running > ./configure from the /usr/ports/misc/amanda-server directory which > does not work. Do I need to be in a different directory or is there > another way to change the options before running make? > > Thank you, > Michelle > You may have a "work" dir underneath the path you stated above. Check in this dir, and probably one under it named "amanda-version.number.here" for a script entitled "configure." You should be able to run it from there. However, you run some risk of breaking the installation (of Amanda, not FBSD itself...) Another alternative *might* be to hack the Makefile (in /usr/ports/misc/amanda-server) to reflect the config options you want. Unless you're real good at shell scripts, you should make a copy first. Nope, on second thought, make a copy first regardless of your 'shellability.' All that said, it's likely that the version in the ports tree will run best if you leave it alone and let it configure itself --- the port maintainer should have already read all the instructions you've read (and probably some others, too...) and has already figured out the best way to run it on FBSD, and that info should be in the Makefile. Finally, many programs allow you to set the user and group at the command line, so you might be able to do it there if the ports sets it up some other way. (Lots of ways to do stuff in 'Nix....) *disclaimer: I've never used Amanda (that doesn't sound quite right), and I don't even know her personally (insert other foot there, ;-) Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.