Re: amanda: expressing defaults again in Makefile?

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:21:56PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:10:50PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > 
> > Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:51:54PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > >> I am needing amanda on a small-memory sparc, and am thus newly motivated
> > >> to make the default packages acceptable to me.  I am taking a cleanup
> > >> pass on the packages, and noticed that AMANDA_{USER,TMP,VAR} are in
> > >> /usr/pkgsrc/mk/default/mk.conf.  I am guessing that they should
> > >> therefore not be defined in the makefile, and have the following patch.
> > >> OK to commit, or am I confused?
> > >
> > > Stupid question, why is this user called backup at all? I think the
> > 
> > Separate issue; I was going to change it to 'amanda'.
> 
> Why ? At last backup is generic enough so that it can be shared
> with other backup software which wants a non-root user.



The same question could be asked for many packages.  Eg. should apache run
as user "apache" or user "www" ?  If you want to run another webserver on
the same system (eg. thttpd), it depends on whether you want both to share
privileges or not.


        Geert


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