On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> What's "stc-changer"? I don't see anything in the Amanda sources by
> that name.
It's part of the STCTL package that works with AMANDA and the hardware
to.. (hehe i'm sure you know the rest)
> >When I do an 'stc-changer -slot 1' ...
> >I get the slot #, total # of slots, and one other number I forget now
>
> Ummm, do you mean "stc-changer -info"?
Err, yup! Thanks for catching that.
> >instead of:
> >
> >exit code, total # of slots, and one other unimportant at this juncture
> >number.
>
> The former is correct. The first number in the output is supposed to
> be a slot number, not an exit code.
Ok, well that's cool then.
> >Am I right in thinking that the reason amcheck can't get status from
> >stc-changer is because it's getting a slot number instead of a 0 (zero)
> >for 'successful'? ...
>
> I don't think so.
Doh.
> What, exactly, is amcheck (or amtape) saying?
amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not read result from
"/usr/local/libexec/stc-changer"
Since I get that, but stc-changer works when invoked manually, I was
thinking that amcheck-server was reading the slot number as the exit code.
I see now from your previous answer that it's not looking at the first
number as the exit code, but now I'm baffled as to why amcheck isn't
nabbing stc-changer's exit code.
To be honest when I invoke stc-changer the command takes 60 seconds to
complete, but when I invoke amcheck -s it instantly gives me this error
message.
It's pretty strange to me. :( Can you point me in the right direction?
Btw, I also get a similar message when using amtape:
amtape: could not load slot <error>: could not read result from
"/usr/local/libexec/stc-changer"
:(
Appreciate your help so far!
Cheers,
Chris
ps. If it's something I missed in your chapter in the O'Reilly book on
Unix Backup and Recovery, you can just point me out to the page #, but I
don't see anything on this circumstance in there... :(
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