Hi,
I’m having problems getting Amanda amanda-2.4.4p1 to install/work on BSDi
5. I’ve read and re-read all the documentation, and I’m using this
list as a ‘last resort.’
I’m hoping this may be just a simple configuration issue:
I can successfully build and install the Amanda package, but when running
amlabel, it asks: “insert tape into slot and press return” I
do so and press <enter> but the message repeats itself. I need to ctrl-c
to get out of it. I am using a VXA-2 Tape Drive.
Things I have tried:
I can run mt and receive tape drive information as user: amanda
all directories w/ conf files
related to amanda are owned user.group by amanda.
Verified that the device referenced in the config file is /dev/nrst0
Tapelist is 0 bytes (touch tapelist)
I installed an older version of amanda with more errors than I’m getting
now.
amanda-2.4.3
amlabel in 2.4.3 gives me nasty
errors about not able to read certain lines in the config file (expected end of
line, etc.) this may be a clue?
I installed the dev branch of amanda
(2.5.x) but get different errors about not finding certain directories. This is
probably just a development bug as I know that source is not stable.
I wonder if I am missing a
dependency. The INSTALL document refers to needing readline and termcap to build
amanda (They are installed). Maybe I need something else.
Does this sound familiar to anybody?
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Anybody else running BSDi 5 and
using Amanda?
Thanks in advance,
-Chris Fairman