RE: Preventing yum or up2date to update gnu tar

2005-06-03 Thread Hull, Dave
If you run up2date-config, you can add tar* to the PkgSkipList or whatever they call it to preven up2date from updating tar. -- Dave Hull -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Guy Dallaire Sent: Fri 6/3/2005 8:15 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Cc: Subject

RE: amrecover: Unexpected end of file

2005-05-10 Thread Hull, Dave
I've had similar problems in the past for unknown reasons. In several instances running amverify on the tape in question has been enough to correct the problem and allow me to restore. Good luck. -- Dave Hull Networking and Telecommunications Services A Division of Information Services The Un

RE: Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-21 Thread Hull, Dave
> He should not need to do that if the module exists in > his /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers directory tree. > > That said, I have some stuff like that I've put, not into modules.conf > (or in my case modprobe.conf, FC2 box) but into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. > That seems to simplicate matter

RE: Amanda on Redhat, tape drive question

2005-03-21 Thread Hull, Dave
> > As an aside, I highly recommend CentOS as an option for RH shops moving > > forward. RH9 is far from supported, while CentOS (being an RHEL rebuild) > > will be supported for years. Or until Red Hat goes under due to too many people using the parasitic clone products that do nothing to sup

RE: Some questions about Amanda's emailing of backup reports

2005-03-03 Thread Hull, Dave
Our solution here is to have amanda send the email to itself (via the mailto option in our amanda.conf file). The amanda account has a procmail filter that saves a copy to a local file and forwards another copy on to the required persons. $ cat /services/amanda/.procmailrc # Set up environment

RE: amdump: timeout

2005-02-15 Thread Hull, Dave
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gene Heskett I'm not a sol expert, thats others territory, but I suspect that if there is a firewall (iptables or a lookalike) involved, you will have to cut a hole in it to allow amanda to talk to her clients and vice versa. I

RE: amdump: timeout

2005-02-14 Thread Hull, Dave
I have successfully installed and configured Amanda on RHEL servers and clients. I'm trying to install the client bits on a Solaris 8 system. I've downloaded source and run configure with the correct options, but I'm getting the following error during configure: configure: WARNING: netinet/ip.h