On Friday 20 October 2006 12:07, Steven Settlemyre wrote: >someone hinted to me that since my client is a solaris machine, the >GNUTAR program specified in my dumptype might not be correct. I know on >my Linux machines, gnutar is /bin/tar, but my solaris machine is at >/usr/local/bin/tar. could this be the problem? also, how would I get my >dumptype to use this path? > If that tar is A: in the path when you built amanda, it should be found.
And B: the tar is NOT a 1.14 any version, plain 1.13, or 1.15-91. Those are known breakages here, on linux. >Thanks > >Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:15:04AM -0400, Steven Settlemyre wrote: >>> Server: >>> Debian (sarge) Linux. >>> amanda version: 2.5.0p2 >>> >>> Client: >>> tar: (GNU tar) 1.13.19 >>> amanda-client: ? how do i find this? >> >> On any amanda installation, >> >> amadmin - version >> >> >> For amanda developers, an RFE, amadmin syntax is: >> amadmin config cmd cmd_args >> >> So for the version cmd you have to supply a config argument. >> Thus my "-" in the above command line. >> It would make sense (to me) to allow the version cmd as an >> exception to the general syntax and allow "amadmin version" >> (i.e. with or without a config named). Config doesn't make >> much sense for the version cmd. Nor on clients prior to >> recent releases. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
