Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Stephen P Potter wrote:Joseph Kern wrote:Amanda is a great program, I used it for a single server, and while it did take a little effort to set up. It worked really well.Slightly offtopic....I recently added an account for my wife, Amanda, to one of my RHEL (actually CentOS) servers, and could not understand why all of her email was getting bounced to root. Then I found out that some genius decided it would be a good idea to have a default email alias for the AMANDA backup software, even if the software wasn't installed. Isn't that kind of the point of having package management (RPMs) that including configuration capability, to install this stuff as necessary?I'm sure you've already solved the problem. So I won't bother with suggestions.I ran into a user on one of my systems named Alex Manda, with a user account name of amanda.For the folks at Redhat, it would work better (avoid collisions) if they used amandabackup as the name for the user account. Typical install instructions for Amanda are to create the Amanda backup user account and then install the package. The package needs to set ownerships correctly. So they are probably just trying to make it easier to install the package by having an account already created, and they have configured the package --with-user=amanda. If you change the account name, and then decide you want to install Amanda, their package install won't work correctly. You could build from source, of course.All the packages from the download site at zmanda.com use the username amandabackup and create that user account. Zmanda has packages for Fedora and for RedHat Enterprise various releases (among others). So this would be an alternative to using RedHat's own packages, which might not be as up to date anyway.
I would always recommend using either the rpm packages (or better yet the source tarball) from zmanda. I can only imagine that doing a yum install for amanda would give one a very outdated version. . .
-Nick