On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:04:34PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > 2006/4/7, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I'm told that the 1.14 versions from RH, if fresh, have the backported > > patches that fixed 1.14 so it worked. I think I'd make a softlink & > > see if it works. > > > > Yes the 1.14 fromRH is supposed to work, but I don't see how a symlink > would resolve the issue ? Or I do not understand what you mean by a > symlink... a symlink to the 1.14 package named tar-1.15 ? How would > you create that and how would it fix the problem ??? > > In any case, installing amanda from source is VERY EASY and you have a > lot more options that using a pre-packaged RPM and I would siggest the > OP to to that instead. (And install the latest gnu tar from source as > well, telling amanda to use the compiled gnu-tar instead with the > --with-gnu-tar configuration switch...) >
When installed in /usr/local, a lot of commands that only amanda should execute are placed in /usr/local/libexec. Even the amanda-user shouldn't be running them directly. I use the libexec directory for an amanda-only copy of whatever gnutar (calling it amgtar) I want it to use andr as suggested, configure using the --with-gnu-tar=/usr/local/libexec/amgtar option to tell amanda to use it. Now I'm free to put whatever I want in /usr/local/libexec/amgtar and amanda will use it without affecting anything else on the system. amgtar can be a new or different version that when first configured, or could be replaced with a wrapper. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)