Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:01:35 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Morse, Richard E.MGH" <REMORSE@partners.org> Subject: Re: How to allow Amanda to install as operator? Message-ID: <CADLo83-kBX5ie-ayD-7-CF%2BeZDKU1O2zGXo4cFHTfA8ctmQ9yg@mail.gmail.com>
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Please CC me in replies, this was passed on to me by someone subscribed. "Morse, Richard E.MGH" wrote: > Hi! I'm trying to upgrade my Amanda installation from a v2.6 to v3.2 via > ports. I had configured Amanda previously to be installed as the user > `operator`. The upgraded version wants to install as the user `amanda`; > however this presents all kinds of problems: > - the `amanda` user has no home directory, one is needed to put th= e > access file in > - I already have all of the directories set up as owned by operato= r > - I have a number of clients that are all set up to allow operator= to > access them, but not "amanda". > > I have tried setting AMANDA_USER and AMANDA_GROUP to be `operator`, but t= his > then complains that `operator` is not found in `/usr/ports/GIDs` and > `/usr/ports/UIDs`. Since these are part of the base system, I don't want = to > mess with them, so I groveled through the .mk files, and determined that = I > should be able to provide my own user and group files by setting the > GID_FILES and UID_FILES environment variable. > > I tried this. I created the necessary files (greping out the data from > /etc/passwd and /etc/group), put them in the same directory as GIDs and > UIDs, and ran the make command: > > GID_FILES=3D"/usr/ports/OP_GROUP" UID_FILES=3D"/usr/ports/OP_USER" > AMANDA_USER=3D"operator" AMANDA_GROUP=3D"operator" make install > > This runs along for a while, then dies with the note: > > ** /usr/ports/OP_GROUP doesn't exist. Exiting. > *** Error code 1 > > > If I do a `less /usr/ports/OP_GROUP` (copying exactly from the error > message), I can see the file I created just fine. > > Is there something that I'm missing? How am I supposed to install a port = as > a user that already exists? Why doesn't make see that the file exists? > Update your ports tree and try again. Let me know if it doesn't work! http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2011-August/224032.html Chris --=20 Chris Rees =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0| FreeBSD Developer crees@FreeBSD.org =A0 | http://people.freebsd.org/~crees
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