Hi, Joshua, on Mittwoch, 17. März 2004 at 18:01 you wrote to amanda-users:
JBL> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 at 10:47am, Barry A. Trent wrote >> Wouldn't these be more appropriate as run-time >> options, perhaps in amanda.conf? I'm using pre-packaged builds for JBL> Yes they would -- patches accepted. :) If you look through the list JBL> archives, you'll find that there is agreement that there is a bunch of JBL> stuff decided at compile time that shouldn't be, but that it's not really JBL> all that easy to fix and there's more pressing development issues. >> several different flavors of Linux and I'd rather not have to >> compile/maintain a bunch of different executables if I can avoid it. JBL> A lot of us find it rather easy to admin amanda this way with scripts to JBL> ease compilation. >> 2) Is there some way to get a pre-compiled version of amanda to tell >> me what portrange settings it was compiled with? I know I can observe >> the sessions on the wire and figure it out that way, but I'm hoping >> there is an easier way. JBL> If you look in /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug, recent versions will tell you JBL> the compile time options. I know that I am talking from my subjective point of view, but I am still trying to think objectively: It is not that difficult to maintain AMANDA by compiling it from the sources. If you have once defined your configure-options and put it into a shell-script, upgrading to a new release is no more than # cd <new-amanda-sources>; my-config.sh; make # cd <current-amanda-sources>; make uninstall # cd <new-amanda-sources>; make install As new releases or even snapshots of AMANDA compile clean on most platforms (thanks to the maintainers), there is no more effort needed. I do this all the time since I-don't-know-when and I don't see the advantage of applying rpms, that have been pre-compiled by some distro-maintainer, whose job is to stay "compatible". (You ask how to figure out which portrange settings a precompiled version uses. Why not put less energy into setting them yourself?) --- By compiling your own binaries you get the freedom to choose YOUR own setup, to set YOUR firewall-settings, to assure that YOUR version of AMANDA does exactly the job you want it to. And it stays YOUR setup with each new release of AMANDA. All this with a small shell-script. I think this is worth the effort of figuring out the configure-options. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
