Re: new debian buster install, missing /etc/amanda-security.conf file

Charles Curley <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 15:36:21 -0500
Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:

> Updating both to newer hardware for machines and installing debian 
> buster, but amcheck says that the /etc/amanda-security.conf file
> won't let me run tar as root, but the real problem is that 
> the /etc/amanda-security.conf file does not exist.

If you used the packages that come with buster, you should have
gotten /etc/amanda-security.conf from the amanda-client package. Did
you install from the debian packages, or did you only install the
server on that machine?

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