On Thursday 15 January 2004 10:52, Stephen Yeates wrote:
>> You should use gnutar, not the solaris tar.
>
>Thanks for your prompt reply, I'm still a little unclear.
>
>I already use the dumptype GNUTAR for the Solaris client
>
>define dumptype comp-user-tar {
>    program "GNUTAR"
>    comment "partitions dumped with tar"
>    options compress-fast, index, exclude-list
>"/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
>    priority medium
>}
>
>I have gnutar in /usr/local/bin on the Solaris machine, how do
>I force Amanda to use this instead of the standard Solaris tar
>is GNUTAR not coded into Amanda at compile time?
>
>regards,
>
>Stephen

I believe it can be if spec'd in the ./configure argument list.  If 
so, or the path was correct and configure found it, it should be 
recorded in the config.log file in the src dir.

However if its dependent on the $PATH, then you may have to re-arrange 
the $PATH to place the gnutar version such that its found first.  In 
my log, it appears it specifically asked for "gtar" and found it in 
/bin/gtar.

Please post the output of "which gtar" and "gtar --version"

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