On Wednesday 05 April 2006 13:03, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >[Replying only to fedora-list.] > >On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I've been trying to help Anne Wilson setup a working amanda system >> at her place for over a week now, and having all sorts of troubles >> that were triggered by the amanda executables not being in the user >> amanda's environmental path when she actually logs in as amanda, as >> opposed to doing an 'su amanda' from root, which of course gets you >> the full maryann of roots $PATH. Thats why when she sent me an >> example of the command she was useing, it was always after cd'ing to >> the amanda src tree and doing "./amcheck" or whatever, otherwise she >> was getting not found messages. >> >> This was found by "su - amanda" means here, and its a huge gotcha >> for the unwary. Seemingly un-necessary paranoia to me, but... >> >> When doing it as amanda, with amanda's full $PATH, /usr/local/sbin, >> where all of amanda's executables live, is NOT in the $PATH. > >The answer to the path behavior is supplied elsewhere. But I feel >compelled to ask where you are getting your amanda installation from. Snapshot Tarballs, directly from Martins web page at umontreal, the only way to fly with amanda. >There are Amanda RPMs in FC, and I've had no problems with them > (modulo some SELinux issues). The binaries in those packages are > installed in /usr/sbin/. Amanda configuration is a bit of a > challenge, I admit, but once it's working, it's great. > >There should be Amanda 2.5 Rawhide RPMs some time in the not too > distant future. Ben running it since the evening of the 23rd of March, with one update since. Nice. >> Adding it to ~/.bash_profile seems to allow it to survive the >> pathmunge'ing being done in /etc/profile, so I'm A) confused as to >> why it does, and B) in any event, is there a good reason to >> dis-allow access to /usr/local/sbin for the normal user? >> >> Explain it to me please. > >-- > Matthew Saltzman > >Clemson University Math Sciences >mjs AT clemson DOT edu >http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
