On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:11:00PM +0300, Silver Salonen wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 26 April 2006 16:52, you wrote:
> > On 2006-04-26 15:40, Silver Salonen wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > As I'm in kind of hurry (I'm writing a bachelor's thesis about backups 
> > > and 
...
> > 
> > > 
> > > I've configured everything exactly as written on the quick start page, 
> > > but 
> > 
> >    ... "exactly"...  :-)
> > 
> > 
> > > when I try to label a virtual tape (being actually a folder on hard 
> drive), I 
> > > get several errors about my amanda.conf.
> > > 
> > > I execute:
> > > # su - amandabackup
> > > $ cd /backup/amanda-vtapes/
> > > $ ammt -t file:/backup/amanda-vtapes/tape rewind
> > > $ amlabel daily Test-01
> > > 
> > > And get:
> > > 
> > > "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 164: holding disk parameter expected
> > > "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 164: end of line expected
> > 
> > > 
> > > I think there's no point to copy-paste all the problematic lines, but I'd 
> do 
> > > it about some of the first. Lines from 164 to 168 are:
> > > 
> > > infofile "/var/lib/amanda/daily/curinfo"                # database 
> > > logdir   "/var/lib/amanda/daily"                        # log directory
> > > indexdir "/var/lib/amanda/daily/index"          # index directory
> > > tapelist "/var/lib/amanda/daily/tapelist"       # list of used tapes
> > 
> > How about the lines just before?
> > There is probably a "holdingdisk" section,
> > and you forgot to close the brace?
> > 
>
> Oh, damn. Now I'm embarrased.. that was it.. I just didn't uncomment the last 
> brace.
> 

Golden Rule of debugging, when you get a message
about a bug on line 68, look first at line 67 ;)

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