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On Friday, February 06, 2004 12:28 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: 
> Hi, Michael, 
> on Freitag, 06. Februar 2004 at 19:13 you wrote to amanda-users: 
> MK> I will go compile now... and weep. 
>
> Why weep? Take the chance and build exactly the binaries YOU need 
> for your site. 

I will weep because my faith in Debian has just been challenged, not 
because I must compile.  :) 

> Try editing .amandahosts first ... 

Tried that, didn't help.  As Joshua Baker-LePain pointed out in his 
email to me, it would probably help you all to help me if I would 
provide more details.  I.e. logs, configs, etc.  But I do not wish to 
pursue this any further.  I am in the process of building Amanda for 
my server from source.  Then the clients and I will retry.  It just 
doesn't make sense to try and get this working from .deb's and .rpm's. 

> That the debian-maintainer builds packages with localhost shows that 
> he does not know about the problems he triggers.
> 
> And this is not the fault of AMANDA.

True.  I don't see how he has much of a choice.  You MUST compile for 
the machine currently.  His way will basically work fine for a local 
machine backup running everything in Amanda, but not much use for 
network backups. 

> The discussion about the hard coded stuff is an old one. 

How old?  You would think this would be a fairly high priority fix for 
newer versions.

> As you have all the config-structures (directories and such) 
> already, it won't be too much effort to install your own binaries. 

Agreed.

Michael