"John R. Jackson" wrote:
>
> >Finally got everything set up right (I think). Ran my first test dump, and
> >it mailed me a report saying it failed:
> >
> >taper: FATAL shmget: Cannot allocate memory
>
> Shared memory is a kernel feature that you may have to enable or turn
> on in some way. Try "ipcs -a", which should report all current shared
> memory segments, semaphores and message queues. With luck, it will
> either tell you there are a bunch of old shared memory segments for the
> Amanda user caused by your testing, in which case you can use ipcrm to
> clear them, or it will tell you shared memory is not enabled, in which
> case you'll have to find out from someone who knows about your OS (or
> from the system documentation) how to turn that on.
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, this is what the problem was. There were a bunch of entries which I
removed. It seems that when amanda fails, it doesn't always free these
resources.
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