Is there any documentation other than the official manual ?
The one I have (dated june 26 2005, so I presume it is recent) is
woefully poor and has in some cases made the install harder, not
easier.

Some examples:
Chapter 2.2.1 - last line of page 33, start of page 34:
it talks about the $prefix dir and the various command-line parameters
that use the $prefix variable. If users have to change some things,
then, like me, they will be lulled into thinking they should use
something like --llibdir=/etc/amanda/lib
This would cause a problem though because then some things would be
installed under the prefix dir and some would not.
For god's sake, just list the --prefix= command.
If users are advanced enough to want dirs scattered all over the place,
let them dig for the information in the ./configure --help pages.


Chapter 2.3.1 - top of page 36:
"If you are running NIS (aka YP) ..."
Yeah. Right. Cause we all know what that is and whether we are running
it.

Why is it that all linux documentation seems to be like this ? I know
catering to the lowest common denominator sucks, but at least catering
for the user with medium experience would be nice.

100+ man-hours and counting to set up AMANDA for just backing up one
server... And I have a bloody LPI cert in linux so I am not a drooling
newbie... This is ridiculous.

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