[ My apologies in advance for the following. I normally brag about how
little heat there is on this mailing list, but I'm sure going to break
that mold below. If it helps, pretend I'm trying to be funny. --JJ ]
>... My co-workers are saying that it is amanda's fault ...
Absolutely not. Since all the blame for the crap Windows dumps on the
world must apparently now go upstream, it's entirely your fault because
you ran Amanda. Actually, I guess all Windows problems are really the
fault of James da Silva since he wrote much of Amanda. And let's see,
he worked for University of Maryland, and I'll bet the UofMd is an
NCAA member, so we can surely blame them and all collegiate athletic
departments, too.
But wait. There's more. Since you probably ran the command from cron,
and cron runs commands with sh, this must all be Steven Bourne's fault
(and /bin/sh, of course). Or if you ran it by hand with ksh, that
would make it Dave Korn. And both of them worked for AT&T. So I guess
we'd better get a letter off right away telling them they are directly
responsible for an NT crash.
This and the vfat discussion are getting me really, really, pissed off.
If Amanda is running an absolutely normal Samba command and that command
is triggering a Windows crash, then obviously it's either a Samba or
Windows problem (and I know which one I'd bet on). It is **not** an
Amanda problem. If you type the same Samba command Amanda did under
the exact same circumstances, it would have done the same thing.
And for anyone paying the slightest bit of attention, substitute GNU tar
for Samba and Linux kernel for Windows in the above and you'll know how
I feel about blaming Amanda for the vfat problem between that pair.
My apologies for all this ranting, Eric (and everyone else). It has
nothing to do with you, and in fact, it sounds like you already told your
"blame anyone but Windows" co-worker the same thing (and my apologies to
that person, too). I'm clearly torqued off these days by people blaming
Amanda for things it has no control over. And throwing Windows into
the mix just winds me up tighter.
OK, where did I put that blood pressure medicine ... :-).
>Has anyone else heard of this kind of problem? ...
Have you posted this problem to the Samba group? While some Amanda
users use Samba and you might get expertise hits here, it seems like
going directly to those folks would improve your coverage.
Better yet, how about asking Microsoft for help? I'm sure they'll put
every effort into getting you quality assistance right away.
Damn. I'm sure I left those pills around here someplace ... :-).
>Eric Wadsworth
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
