On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 19:45 -0700, David G. Miller wrote: > > > Just change the numeric UID or GID as needed. Also, I think amanda > likes to have some of the stuff under /etc/amanda owned by the amanda > user. But that could be a Red Hat-ism. 501 is probably what you get > for a UID by creating the user through one of the regular user > management tools. Amanda is still user 33 on my clean FC6 install. > It's usually a good idea to have system users like amanda have a UID > outside of the normal user range. ---- and amanda user's home directory as created by rpm install is /var/lib/amanda and not at all connected to /home at all which appears to be Gene's hack method by installing from source. Amanda rpm's always worked for me but I have since left amanda for bacula. Craig
