On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:06:36AM +0200, Ralf Auer wrote:
>       is there a way to tell Amanda-2.5.2p1 where to look for the 'amandates'
> files instead of in '/etc/amandates'? I want to put it to
> '/var/amanda/amandates' without creating links. Any suggestions?

The 'amandates' option in amanda-client.conf should do the trick.

  http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda-client.conf

You can change the default with a one-line patch to
common-src/conffile.c, if you'd rather.

Dustin

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