On Monday, August 30, 2010 05:06:22 pm Dustin J. Mitchell did opine: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dustin; I changed to that syntax and amcheck objected to having both > > the tapedev and that sort of syntax in the tpchanger line unless I > > was using the old chg-disk, so I commented the tapedev line, and gave > > tpchanger the full path to my vtapes ":/amandatapes/Dailys", and > > amcheck was again happy. If that is not in the man pages yet (I > > didn't check yet) then it probably should be. Stateing that as a > > path spec to where they are would be helpful to the newbie. > > > > Yeah, I'm still using the 3.2alpha snapshots, playing canary. > > svn.3343 ATM, worked fine last night with the old syntax. > > Right - the "old syntax" still works, but let's try not to talk about > it in front of n00bs :)
Chuckle... > > In modifying the manpages, I tried to err on the side of the new > syntax, while still documenting the old syntax. So amanda-changers(7) > says: > > The preferred method of specifying configuration for a changer is as a > "changer" section in amanda.conf(5). The tapedev parameter then > indicates, by name, the changer that will be used by default by most > Amanda programs. For example: > > I'll be happy to merge any suggested additions/modifications to the > manpage. > > Dustin Yes, I have since read that, and I'll see what sort of gotcha's I run into in trying to set that up, but not today, I'm half cooked. Thanks Dustin. -- 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) Why are these athletic shoe salesmen following me??
