On Friday 21 July 2006 11:29, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:17:37PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
>> On Friday 21 July 2006 15:58, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > I'm just as puzzled, I now have the latest 2.5.1p1-20060719
>> > installed and I have no such file either.
>> >
>> > Would the OP please supply the full path to this file?
>>
>> The filename is tapestatus and is created in the config directory
>> (e.g., where amanda.conf resides).
>>
>> The bin responsible for it is chg-scsi. It grows in size in an
>> amazing speed...
>>
>> The changer.conf file contains the line:
>> tapestatus      /var/amanda/ISR/tapestatus # here will some status
>> infos be stored
>>
>> so that's where the filename comes from. The file seems to be opened
>> and filled in scsi-changer-driver.c (lines 4558 and 4696 onwards).
>
>>>From the low volume of comments about chg-scsi on this list
>it seems few sites are using that changer.  Thus our unfamiliarity
>with its config and log files.  Sorry.
>
I used it back when I had those %$# seagate 4586n's, which would have 
put the amanda version running someplace in the 2.4.3-4 area.  I don't 
recall that file ever being more than 2 bytes long, and it pointed at 
the slot the tape presently loaded came from IIRC.

>Of course, as few people post to the list except with problems,
>maybe the low volume speaks to the reliability of chg-scsi.

It don't think it has that "r" word in its vocabulary from my 
experience.  One of the reasons, not the strongest one, but certainly a 
consideration in abandoning it in favor of vtapes, was its refusal to 
issue a rewind before reading a tapes label block.  Smartest move I 
ever made, my amanda troubles have shrunk to less than 1% of their 
former frequency.  I think then even, that I was the only one useing 
chg-scsi in this lists membership, so my questions about it also went 
unanswered.  I looked at the code to see if I might stumble over a way 
to fix it, but after a week of trying to understand that bowl of 
cooked, well stirred spagetti, I gave up.  I can't offer positive 
assistance, my apologies.

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