partial success with Amanda under StrongBolt/CentOS on Cobalt Raq4

I tried to set up Amanda last night on my Cobalt Raq4i which is nowrunning the StrongBolt operating system which is built around CentOS 4.4.

v2.6.0 of Amanda won't configure because glib-config is returning aversion number less than 2.2.0 (I think the default glib version is 2.0 inthe OS distribution), so I tried v2.5.2p1 which is what I run on the tapeserver machine (Sun Ultra 2), and this workstation (Sun blade 1000).

Configuring and compiling v2.5.2p1 worked fine - CentOS uses the xinetdfunctionality so that was simple to set up after installing the compiledAmanda software.

I have amcheck on the tape server host talking fine to the Raq4i but atthe moment it's giving back errors that amandad can't access the diskdevices. I've already added the 'amanda' user to the 'sys' group, andchgrp'd all the disk devices to group 'sys' which should have worked, butperhaps I'm overlooking something seeing at the OS is a modern Linux andI'm used to Solaris. I'm sure it's something simple. 8-)

But apart from that, at least the software has configured, compiled andinstalled without any problems, and I've set up communication betweenamandad on the Cobalt and the Amanda software on the tape server host.


Craig.

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