On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:21:34PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
> On Friday 21 July 2006 17:18, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > I hesitate to say they are better.  But perhaps more popular
> > are the scripts based on using the mtx command, either chg-mtx
> > or more commonly the newer chg-zd-mtx.
> 
> Thanks. I switched to chg-zd-mtx. Doing a couple of amtape tests, however the 
> output is cluttered with messages like
> 
> changer: got exit: 0 str: 2 /dev/nst0
> 
> How can I get rid of them?

Sounds like you have errors in either your amanda.conf 
and/or ?chg-zd-mtx?.conf files.

In case you overlooked it, the first part of the chg-zd-mtx
is a set of instructions for setting up these files.

You can also test chg-zd-mtx without amtape.  That is often
a good first step, then checkout amtape.  To do this, you
need to be in the same directory as the amanda.conf and
changer-script file.  The valid command options are at
the end of the.  So you might do things like:

  cd <amanda_config_dir>
  <path_to>/chg-zd-mtx -slot 4
  <path_to>/chg-zd-mtx -search <tapelabel>
  <path_to>/chg-zd-mtx -info
  <path_to>/chg-zd-mtx -reset
  <path_to>/chg-zd-mtx -clean

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