On Friday 20 October 2006 12:07, Steven Settlemyre wrote:
>someone hinted to me that since my client is a solaris machine, the
>GNUTAR program specified in my dumptype might not be correct. I know on
>my Linux machines, gnutar is /bin/tar, but my solaris machine is at
>/usr/local/bin/tar. could this be the problem? also, how would I get my
>dumptype to use this path?
>
If that tar is A: in the path when you built amanda, it should be found.

And B: the tar is NOT a 1.14 any version, plain 1.13, or 1.15-91.  Those 
are known breakages here, on linux.

>Thanks
>
>Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:15:04AM -0400, Steven Settlemyre wrote:
>>> Server:
>>> Debian (sarge) Linux.
>>> amanda version: 2.5.0p2
>>>
>>> Client:
>>> tar: (GNU tar) 1.13.19
>>> amanda-client: ? how do i find this?
>>
>> On any amanda installation,
>>
>>      amadmin - version
>>
>>
>> For amanda developers, an RFE, amadmin syntax is:
>>      amadmin config cmd cmd_args
>>
>> So for the version cmd you have to supply a config argument.
>> Thus my "-" in the above command line.
>> It would make sense (to me) to allow the version cmd as an
>> exception to the general syntax and allow "amadmin version"
>> (i.e. with or without a config named).  Config doesn't make
>> much sense for the version cmd.  Nor on clients prior to
>> recent releases.

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