On Tuesday 29 July 2003 13:03, Eric Siegerman wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:06:43PM -0400, Scott Mcdermott wrote:
>> I'm setting up Amanda on a machine with directly attached
>> When I run the dump though, it calculates what it needs to
>> do, gets to the "driver: hdisk-state time xxx" line, and
>> then just hangs for everdoing nothing.
>> [...]
>>      $ cat normal/disklist | grep -v ^\#
>>
>>     localhost /export/local         tardump
>
>Well, Gene's usually the one to jump all over this, but he didn't
>this time, so I guess I will :-)

Be my guest, I was taking a break trying to get a 2.6.0 kernel to 
boot, 100% failure rate so far.

>Don't use "localhost"; use the machine's real domain name
>instead.
>
>Actually I doubt that the one in disklist is the problem, since
>
>the estimates were collected ok.  However:
>> [...]
>>     planner:        CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure'
>> '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu'
>> '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix='
>> '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin'
>> '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share'
>> '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib'
>> '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda' '--localstatedir=/var/lib'
>> '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
>> '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--enable-shared'
>> '--with-index-server=localhost'
>> '--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists'
>> '--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-amandahosts'
>> '--with-user=amanda' '--with-group=disk' '--with-gnutar=/bin/tar'"
>> planner: defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost"
>> DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1" planner:       
>> DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost"
>
>One of those configure-time localhost's might be screwing things
>up...

Virtually guaranteed.  Amanda is network aware, and localhost could be 
any machine, the original poster should please use the FQDN and 
rebuild his install.

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