On Tuesday 06 October 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Monday 05 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>>On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT 
>>net>
>
>wrote:
>>> Now, I realize that when amdump calls it, it has knowledge of the
>>> logfiles full name, but ISTR it used to be hand runnable with nothing
>>> more than an
>>>
>>> su amanda -c "amreport Daily"
>>>
>>> and it would do the most recent backup.
>>
>>Nope -- the behavior you're observing has been the case as long as I
>>can remember.
>
>Gah, CRS?  Maybe it was amplot, which I haven't exercised in ages, too hard
>to decode.
>
>>> I believe this behavior can be restored if $logdir/'log' was made into a
>>> softlink that was updated when the new long named logfile was started,
>>> and would then be good till the next run, in a manner similar to the use
>>> of the 'data' link now used in the vtape setup.  Can this be managed for
>>> the next snapshot?
>>
>>This gets into some of the old, crufty, hairy parts of Amanda.  That
>>"log" file actually doubles as the lock that prevents other Amanda
>>operations from overlapping with a running dump, so converting it to a
>>symlink is not an option.
>
>I see.  Reading between the lines then, when amdump is running, it is
>actually named 'log' and is renamed when amdump is finished?  If I'm awake
>(doubtful) I'll look while its running.

I was, just enough to note it wasn't full sized yet, so the supposition was 
correct.

>>Amreport is not meant to be run by hand, just like amtrmidx and its
>>ilk, so I don't see a strong need to "fix" this to search for the
>>latest completed logfile.

It worked as expected.  Thanks Dustin.

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