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Re: Availability of Amanda Solaris10/Open Solaris package
2008-09-16 14:44:03
Paddy Sreenivasan wrote:
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 ;-)
Unfortunately, it isn't very standardized for third party software.
I prefer to stay away from /opt/sfw, because that's where stuff that Sun
chose to include in the Solaris 10 install goes. Patches from Sun also
apply to those.
Sunfreeware, which I have used a fair bit, tends to go almost entirely
with /usr/local, putting things in /usr/local/(bin, doc, info, lib, man,
share and so on).
I've tended to follow Sunfreeware's precedence when I build my own
stuff. Then I can use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH, and crle to control how
things get accessed. By putting /usr/local/lib in front of /usr/sfw/lib,
I get the things I've added as a preference, but still fall back to what
Sun did if I didn't "over-ride" it. In Solaris 10 with the new T2 based
servers such as the T5220, this is particularly critical. Sun has
provided a tie-in from their version of openssl to the on chip
cryptographic accelerators. Anything that is built pointing to their
libraries will get that speed boost (Apache, sendmail, Amanda). If I
tried to build that portion myself, I would either have to know a lot
more about the low level configuration or I would lose that
acceleration. I'm also playing with gccfss from Sun, which is optimized
specifically for the T2 based systems.
I should have feedback to the list soon about Amanda in this build
environment.
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Chris Hoogendyk
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