> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net]
> On Tuesday 24 June 2003 17:27, Harry Mbang wrote:
> >Hi,
> >     I am still trying to get my first successful Amanda backup. 
> > Now when I run amcheck, I get an error
> >
> >"cannot read/write /usr/local/var/Amanda/gnutar-lists: No such file
> > or directory"
> >
> >Indeed there is no such file or directory.  My gnutar-lists is
> > located in /var/lib/Amanda.  What shall I do?  I am also guessing
> > that Amanda is going to want read/write other files and folders in
> > the non-extisting directory.  Should I recompile Amanda with some
> > option specifying the default directory for that type files and
> > folders?  Thanks in advance for any advice.
> >
> >Harry.
> It sounds as if you have a mix-n-match install there.  If an rpm, it 
> could be /var/lib/amanda.  But the default for building a tarball is 
> /usr/local/whatever.
> 
> Move your tapelists and the rest of your config stuff to 
> /usr/local/etc/amanda and see if that fixes things by running amcheck 
> (as the user who normally runs amanda, it won't run as root), and 
> fixing any other errors (warnings can be ignored) that pop up.  Also 
> do an 'rpm -e amanda*' to get rid of the rpms , they have no business 
> surviving on the system if you have built amanda from a tarball.

Or you could do what I did and add the config parameter into your amanda.conf 
file.

tapelist "/var/amanda/CONFIG-NAME/tapelist" # list of used tapes