On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 at 3:27pm, Morse, Richard E. wrote

> So, in order to work around this, I have modified amdump, and put at the _very_
> start, the 'mt -f /dev/nrsa0 comp off' line.
> 
> This is, however, rather a hack.  I would much rather be able to do this at
> startup, as it should be done.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might go about accomplishing this?
> Failing that, is there some more compatible way to add this to Amanda?

Why not just have your cron job launch a script rather than amdump 
directly?  The first line of script can be your 'mt' command.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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