ok:
i was trying to run tapetype as root with the bash shell but my system
hanged.
i solved this problem running tapetype as bin:disk(my amanda user:group, i
don't know if it is important) and with the sh shell. This worked!!!.
i found this clue reading the amanda-user mailing list archives.
What i got was:
define tapetype PV-100T-DDS4{
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 345151 mbytes
filemark 13011472 kbytes
speed 1692 kps
}
I don't know if these data are coherent, they look a bit exagerated, don't
they???
> Could you please describe your solution to me?
>
> Yours,
> Bernie
>
>
> Monserrat Seisdedos Nuņez wrote:
> >
> > > >> > Yes the system is hang.
> > >
> > > This is not something a user process should be able to
> do, ever. If
> > > the system hangs, you've got a problem with the kernel of
> the OS, more
> > > likely in the SCSI tape driver. You'll have to reset the
> machine and
> > > start over, and hope for the best. But if the system hangs while
> > > writing garbage to the tape to test its length, there's
> no reason to
> > > have much hope that it won't hang while writing your backups too.
> > >
> > > >> > Any way, what is exactly the meaning of much quicker??, 1
> > > >> or 2 days??
> > >
> > > A few hours.
> > >
> > Hello everybody:
> > i resolved my problem, i read somewhere in the mailing-list archives
> > something about problems in linux with the
> > amanda scripts because bash instead of using sh, so i tried
> with the sh
> and
> > all worked.
> > Thanks for your help
> > mo
>
