--On Thursday, June 12, 2003 18:29:10 -0700 Ashwin Kotian <ashwin_jk AT yahoo 
DOT com> wrote:

> Ok so I finally took a chance and have installed the
> latest amanda version 2.4.4 as follows:
> 
> ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk     \
>         
> --with-gnutar=/bin/tar                    \
> --prefix=/usr/local/amanda
> 
> I thought this is what is needed to tell Amanda to use
> GNUTAR instead of DUMP....however I'm not sure if that
> worked. I say this because if I rename the dump
> binary, amanda complains about unable to execute
> /sbin/dump.
> 
> Any clues as to what I'm doing wrong ?

Your disklist entry needs to specify a dumptype that
uses GNU tar.

Frank

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ashwin.
> 
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