amandas group membership in FC6?

[Craig White]

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.
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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