I had the same problem.

At first I used a sample config file modified for my changer. Recreating
the file from scratch using the sample that's in the
/usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx file itself (on top and commented out) did
the trick for me.

Good luck,

Rick

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 08:29, Jim Summers wrote:
> Seems like this is that problem of not specifying values
> for all of the variables in the config file.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:43, John Oliver wrote:
> > Red Hat 8.0  Using the amanda and mtx that came with.
> > 
> > [root@backup root]# su amanda -c "amcheck DailySet2"
> > bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied
> > Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> > -----------------------------
> > Holding disk /var/tmp: 2335916 KB disk space available, that's plenty
> > amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from
> > changer: "/usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx: line 140: [: too many arguments"
> > 
> > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> > --------------------------------
> > Client check: 1 host checked in 0.094 seconds, 0 problems found
> > 
> > (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)
> > 
> > 
> > Jumping down to line 140 of /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx, I don't see
> > anything that loks wrong to me. 
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I can't chck th archives right now... the company I'm
> > working on this for has a web proxy that blocks egroups, and I haven't
> > been able to get them to let me around that yet :-(
> > 
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