On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 01:18:02PM +1000, shaun wrote:
> yeah it seems to me that that it the case
> 
> shaun
> 
> [root@william DailySet1]# pwd
> /etc/amanda/DailySet1
> [root@william DailySet1]# ls -ls
> total 32
>   20 -rw-r--r--    1 amanda   disk        17644 May  9 14:14 amanda.conf
>    4 -rw-r--r--    1 amanda   disk          316 May  9 10:19 chg-multi.conf
>    4 -rw-r--r--    1 amanda   disk         2099 May  9 13:18 disklist
>    4 -rw-r--r--    1 amanda   disk            1 May 12 11:49 tapelist
                                               ^^^

Try creating it as an empty file, not a file with a blank line.

    $ rm tapelist
    $ touch tapelist
        or
    $ > tapelist

No guarentees, but who knows.

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