On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Nick Smith <nick.smith AT techop DOT ch> wrote:
> Hi Paddy,
>
> It's great that there is a packaged version of Amanda again.
>
> Why are you installing it /usr/libexec/*, /usr/bin & /var/lib/amanda?

I tried to keep the same location as Linux versions. See
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_packages_from_Zmanda_downloads_page

>
> I don't mean to be a troll but there are many standard (sic) places to place
> third party software on Solaris such as /usr/sfw, /opt/csw, /usr/local. I
> know of several sysadmins who would refuse to install the package on the
> grounds of lack of separation of OS and third-part apps.

If there is standard location for Solaris, please let us know. We
would be happy to incorporate it.

>
> Does anyone know what *Sun* recommends? Personally I'd go for
> /opt/<something>/*, /var/opt/amanda/*, /etc/opt/amanda but that's a
> *personal* preference before somebody flames me ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick
>
> p.s. I've also been playing with creating Solaris packages for 2.6.0.pX  and
> have made some progress with getting clean installs of SMF manifests. Let me
> know if you like me to contribute them.

Please feel free to send them to me. We will include it and recognize
you as the contributor in
the changelog file.

thanks,
Paddy
>
> Paddy Sreenivasan wrote:
>>
>> Solaris package for recent release of Amanda, 2.6.0p2 is available for
>> download at
>> http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php
>>
>> Documentation is available at http://wiki.zmanda.com
>>
>> thanks,
>> Paddy
>>
>



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