As others have said, it uses the TAPE environment variable. I wish we could
convince the maintainer to use CHANGER instead, so it doesn't conflict with
mt's TAPE environment variable <sigh>
Anyway, make sure you are using either the version we made
http://www.noc.isite.net/?Projects
or the version someone else did which supports barcodes. The version
distributed with Amanda doesn't work with modern versions of mtx and has
numerous bugs.
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:24:12PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> I'm trying to get my first tape changer working, and I'm a little confused.
>
> It appears that I need to use the chg-zd-mtx scriptm but the version of mtx
> that I have is used like this:
>
> mtx -f /dev/sg0 next
>
> for instance. Now it appears to me that chg-zd-mtx just runs mtx like this:
>
> mtx next
>
> That is wihtout the device specifier. Now it is possible for my version of
> mtx to use the CHANGER environment variable, instead of the -f argument,
> but I can't see anywhere that gets set in chg-zd-mtx either, and since this
> will ultimatley be run fron cron, and thus potentialy be somewhat
> "environmently chalenged", I am wondering how this is usually handled?
>
>
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> Windows 98: n.
> useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
> a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
> originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
> company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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