I agree with Cait.  Samples definitely help me learn / catch on to what
I am trying solve / configure.


On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 12:53, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
> Hi, John, and everyone else,
> 
> On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:46, John P. Looney wrote:
>  
> >  I've just spent the last week battling with amanda from the Solaris 2.6
> > package. Loads of wierd errors, loads of things not working. In part,
> > because of my ... reckless attempts at fixing the situation (the last
> > one, that took me ages to find was that I'd chown'd a load of setuid
> > files to root - and then amanda couldn't run them, as I'd chgrp'd them
> > to root, not amanda.
> 
> Gee... that sounds like my first experience with amanda in ths spring of
> '98.  We were running a mix of Solaris 2.4-2.5 and BSDi.
> >  
> >  It worked fine like that. I'd not bother with example configs, bar
> > those installed by the source. Amanda does need a little thinking (I've
> > learned the hard way) and pain and suffering will ensue if people just
> > copy & paste from existing configs instead of reading the docs.
> 
> I respectfully disagree.  I am a visual learner.  Once I see an example
> the instructions click in my head.  Then I can create my own.  The
> examples, though, are hugely helpful to me.  The ones provided with
> RedHat were really good.
> 
> Regards,
> Cait
>