On Friday 06 February 2004 13:13, Michael Kahle wrote:
>Sorry, my mail reader sucks (outlook)...

I'm glad you said that. :)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at]
>Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 12:09 PM
>To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>Subject: Re: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?
>
><snip>
>The server has been compiled with -default-tape-server=localhost ?
>
>If you still have the sources lying around I would recommend a
> simple
>
>make uninstall
>./configure --with-tape-server=<fqdn> --other-options --... make
> install
>
>It does not break/delete/change your config/index-dirs or such.
>
>But you get predictable behavior. It is a well known fact on this
> list to not use "localhost". As it seems it doesn't come through
> the docs well enough.
></snip>
>
>Ok, this is (I think) the info I was looking for.  I just didn't do
> a good job wording it properly the first time (and second?).  :)
>
>The Debian package maintainer compiled this with
>"--default-tape-server=localhost"  I did not roll my own.  I try not
> to whenever possible on Debian.  From the looks of it, I will have
> to.
>
>Why doesn't amanda allow for runtime configuration of this stuff? 
> I.e., in the /etc/amanda folder you could put a "master.conf" file
> that would contain info like, default user, default tape server,
> etc.  This kind of stuff should be separated from the binaries! 
> Weird.
>
>According to Oreilly's "Unix Backup & Recovery" chapter on Amanda
> p.151 it reads:
>"Some operating system distributions provide precompiled versions of
> AMANDA, but because AMANDA hard codes some values into the
> programs, they may not match the configuration."
>
>I just answered my own question above, as the paragraph continues...
>"Work is being done to move these values to runtime configuration
> files, but for now AMANDA should be built from source."
>
>I guess I should take the authors advice.  When I read things like
> that I think, "Well that may be true for LESSER distributions." 
> Looks like my "blind faith" in the infallibility of Debian has just
> been shaken to the core.  I will go compile now... and weep.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Michael

Michael, it seems you may have a reticence to recompile attacking your 
psych.

To help with that, and as I build each version within hours of its 
release, I use a script that solidifies the config so it never 
changes, like this, modify to suit of course since I have a small 
changer:
----
#!/bin/sh
# since I'm always forgetting to su amanda :( ...
if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then
        echo
        echo "!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!"
        echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user amanda,"
        echo "but must be installed by user root."
        echo
        exit 1
fi
make clean
rm -f config.status config.cache
./configure --with-user=amanda \
        --with-group=disk \
        --with-owner=amanda \
        --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 \
        --with-changer-device=/dev/sg1 \
        --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr/local \
        --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \
        --with-tape-server=coyote.coyote.den \
        --with-amandahosts \
        --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda

make
----

So all you have to do once this script has run is to become root, cd 
to the src dir and "make install".  The amcheck becomes your error 
checker, ignore the warnings and fix the errors.  The warnings will 
be fixed when amdump runs.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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