Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu> wrote in message
<20050921173946.GY19245 AT math.ohiou DOT edu>

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:21:32PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff enlightened
> us:
> > I recently updated my linux distro from Mandrake 10.1 to 10.2. Rather
> > foolishly, I decided to upgrade Amanda from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 at the same
> > time. [I know - only change one thing at a time :( ]
> > 
> > Anyway, the result was that Amanda would no longer work, with the
> > dreaded "selfcheck request timed out". Finally, after much pulling out
> > of hair, I tracked down the cause to amandad not starting, because of a
> > dependancy on libintl.so.2, while the new distro only provides
> > libintl.so.3. As a quick fix, I symlinked .2 to .3, and got Amanda
> > working.
> > 
> > Question: why this dependance on a rather ancient (2003) library? Will
> > it hurt to stick with the symlink, or should I obtain a .2 library?
> 
> How did you install amanda? If it was a pre-built RPM, then chances are
> that the build machine had libintl.so.2 on it. This is a good argument for
> building your own amanda either from source or via SRPMs.
> 
Indeed; I built it from source...

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Tony van der Hoff          | mailto:tony AT vanderhoff DOT org
Buckinghamshire, England