The files & directories are all owned correctly except for a couple like
amcheck which is owned by root:disk. Amflush is owned by amanda:disk.
I did not remove the rpms but all the files have the same date & I moved all
the old files to a temp directory before deleting them. I'm not running
up2date.
One other piece of info I didn't mention is that I have 2 backups that dump
into the same holding disk & I backup the some of the same partitions in
each backup. Amanda names them differently to tell them apart.
Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net]
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 4:15 PM
To: Bill Hults; Amanda List
Subject: Re: Amflush


On Thursday 26 December 2002 15:01, Bill Hults wrote:
>Hi
>I am running Amanda 2.43 under RH8.
>Amflush has stopped working recently. My normal backups run fine
> but if for some reason I don't change the tape & I need to flush
> the files to tape it won't.
>The amflush file looks like this
>
>amflush: datestamp 20021226
>driver: pid 30923 executable driver version 2.4.3
>driver: send-cmd time 0.002 to taper: START-TAPER 20021226
>taper: pid 30924 executable taper version 2.4.3
>taper: page size is 4096
>taper: buffer size is 32768
>taper: buffer[00] at 0x40091000
>taper: buffer[01] at 0x40099000
>taper: buffer[02] at 0x400a1000
>...
>taper: buffer[19] at 0x40129000
>taper: buffer structures at 0x40131000 for 240 bytes
>taper: read label `MidDay10103' date `20021218'
>taper: wrote label `MidDay10103' date `20021226'
>
>So it looks like it writes the label & then hangs. It will stay
> that way until I kill the process.
>Any thoughts?
>TIA
>
>
>Bill Hults

The only thing I can come up with is a permissions problem & even
that is not makeing a lot of sense to me.  Is everything in the
holding disk owned by amanda and whatever group (disk?) you made
amanda a member of?  Ditto for the contents of /usr/local/libexec?

How about the directory where its supposed to store its logfiles?

And, when you put in the tarball for amanda, did you first remove
the rpm's?  RedHat doesn't put them in the default (for amanda)
directories, and that makes for some interesting mix-n-missmatch
errors.  I've had to watch up2date like a hawk else it will
re-install the rpms, which is not a Good Thing(tm).

Maybe (I sure hope so) somebody else has a better idea.

--
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