On Tuesday 16 December 2003 18:07, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>Dan L. Ostrom wrote:
>> I was then able to do an amcheck, and it succeeded. Doing
>> an amdump still
>> fails however. Looking into the log file (sendsize.-----.debug) it
>> indicated that
>> amdump is not receiving the size information (presumably from
>> sendsize module)
>> that it needs to complete the tar.
>
>Well, it looks like you'll have better luck than me. In my poking
>around to find out what the answer to my issue was, I may have
> bumped into the answer to yours:
>"On SunOS 4.1.3, HP/UX and possibly other systems, GNU tar 1.12 will
>report incorrect output sizes, because printf does not understand
> '%llu'."
>
>The above is from http://www.amanda.org/patches, and has the patches
> to fix same.
>Note that there are also some issues with GNU tar 1.13, which are
> also addressed.
>
1.13 is busted, thats why we always recommend either 1.13-19 or
1.13-25.
>-Ken
>
>> It is bewildering that amcheck works, but amdump would
>> fail, but then
>> amanda was written to have clients out there, so this is a little
>> beyond it's
>> scope. I am not a C programmer, but I am going to continue to
>> *hack* at this
>> to try and get it to work.
>>
>> If anyone else out there has already solved this problem,
>> please by
>> all means send the fix. I really don't need to re-invent the wheel
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> At 09:15 AM 12/16/2003, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>>> pll+amanda AT permabit DOT com wrote:
>>> > Try using GnuTar for your dump program instead. Running 'dump'
>>> > over
>>>
>>> an NFS
>>>
>>> > mount if it ever works, is likely to be frought with problems.
>>>
>>> Hey, Paul: yah; I'm already using tar instead of dump.
>>>
>>> > To compile amanda, you may well need to install a bunch of
>>> > things
>>>
>>> like gcc,
>>>
>>> > automake/autoconf, etc.
>>>
>>> Yeah. It's actually the libraries, etc., that're giving me the
>>> most grief. Guess it's time to hunker down and just get 'em all.
>>>
>>> > The other option might be attempting to cross-compile for HPUX
>>> > from
>>>
>>> Linux,
>>>
>>> > since Linux has all the necessary tools to begin with.
>>>
>>> True 'nuff, but I wouldn't know where to begin. Think I'll take
>>> the "compile, darn you" approach. Assuming I get it to work, is
>>> there anywhere that I should put the binaries and/or
>>> patches/HOWTO for public consumption?
>>>
>>> -Ken
>>>
>>> P.S. I should explicitly thank Eric Schnoebelen as the guy who
>>> was kind enough to send me the patches for Amanda under HP/UX.
>>> Thus far, I've seen nothing wrong with them, but rather with my
>>> "development" suite (ha!) under HP/UX. See
>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=Amanda+HP%2FUX for the dialog.
>>
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