Amanda-Users

Re: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]

2005-07-13 18:51:09
Subject: Re: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org, sgw AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:37:13 -0400
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:09, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>Matt Hyclak wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:45:28PM -0600, Graeme Humphries 
enlightened us:
>>>>JFYI, I never had problems with the Debian Amanda packages
>>>> (except for a problem with cdrw-taper, where the default config
>>>> file contained a typo)...
>>>
>>>I'd second this, under both Debian and Ubuntu. The only issue I
>>> ever saw was outdated config examples, which isn't super
>>> critical.
>>
>> How are tapeserver and indexserver defined then? They can't know
>> at build time what that server is. You can use amanda packages
>> from RH as is, but it's not the recommended way of doing things
>> since they have to use localhost.
>
>Somehow off-topic here ...
>
>localhost-issue again:
>
>What do you all think about that:
>
>Instead of just having amcheck throwing a WARNING for stuff like
>localhost* inside disklist, I suggest throwing an ERROR.
>
>Better an error in amcheck than an error in amrecover ...
>
>Stefan

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