On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:34 -0600, Cam wrote:
> havereader 1
> firstslot 1
> lastslot 17
> cleanslot -1
> offline_before_unload 0
> 
> but when i run the "/usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -info'" it reports "4 30 1 "

Where are you running it from? It'll read the config in the local
directory (IIRC), so you should run it from your config directory.

> These values are good (the 30 is what i want, but i changed it to 17
> for testing purposes), but they are clearly not what is in my
> changer.conf. 

I've noticed that on our Exabyte unit, it *always* reports the number of
slots that actually have tapes in them, as opposed to the number of
slots I've specified to use, or the total number of slots.

> I'm not sure if it's guessing the information on it's
> own or pulling it from some other file... i read through some of the
> /tmp/amanda/chg-zd-mtx stuff, but unfortunately they do not tell me
> what config file it's reading from.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

What do you have in relation to the changer in your amanda.conf?


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