Thanks, that worked. I still had to do some fiddling with some environmental 
variables but I got it created.

Paul Crittenden
Computer Systems Manager
Simpson College
Phone: 515-961-1680
Email: paul.crittenden AT simpson DOT edu
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org] On Behalf Of Chris Hoogendyk
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:42 AM
To: Paul Crittenden
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Encryption with Amanda



Paul Crittenden wrote:
>
> I have amanda installed and working but now I am trying to set up 
> encryption. I am using v2.5.2p1 on a Sun server running Solaris 9. I 
> have followed the instructions from the URL:
>
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_up_data_encryption
>
> Everything installed fine but when I try to do:
>
> head -c 2925 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | head -n 66 | tail -n 65 | \
> gpg --symmetric -a > ~amanda/.gnupg/am_key.gpg
>
> which was taken from the aespipe-README, it fails. 
>
> Solaris's head command will not accept the -c, uuencode will not 
> accept -m and the tail command complains it needs a file name.
>
> Has anyone else gotten this to work or have any suggestions?
>


I don't see that you've gotten any response.

I don't use that feature, but I am on Solaris 9 and occasionally have to 
adapt linux instructions to my environment.

Two things to do. Look up the man pages for linux online and see what 
those options do. That helps judge the impact of dropping them. I'm 
guessing c is character. I'm not sure about -m. I tried the sequence to 
see what was being done and how it worked. Just doing a head of a bunch 
of lines out of /dev/random will get you a variable number of 
characters. uuencode puts it in a standard format from which you are 
then grabbing 65 lines starting from the 2nd line.

So `head /dev/random | uuencode - | head -66 | tail -65`

got me the chunk of stuff that I think was expected.




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