On Monday 08 April 2002 16:46, you wrote: > >I'm a "brand new" if about amanda and mtx so please don't laugh too hard > > at me. ... > > We never laugh at new users!!! :-) >
That's what I was thinking but, actually, I don't mind if somebody wants to laugh at me if at the same time I can learn something. > >in the mtx-changer.conf file I have: > >... > >statefile /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/localhost/_etc/state > >slot 1 /dev/sga > >slot 2 /dev/sga > >... > > Where did you get the idea behind this file? It doesn't match what > chg-zd-mtx is going to want. It looks like what you might set up for > chg-multi, not chg-zd-mtx. > Well, I found it somewhere on the Net, can't recall where and that was before I found the information about mtx. It looked right to me so I placed everything from my old changer.conf into the mtx-changer.conf having no idea what I should have in my changer config file. >You can get it at: > > ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/chg-zd-mtx.sh.in-243 > > To install it: > > cd changer-src > Save your current chg-zd-mtx.sh.in > Copy the new file in as chg-zd-mtx.sh.in > cd .. > ./configure ... > make > cd changer-src > make install > I got it. Thanks a lot. I'll install it first thing tomorrow morning. > You might want to take a look at the script itself. It starts out with > a lengthy set of comments about how to set it up. > Wow! This script is great! What a gold mine! > Even in the old script there is a block of comments about the format > of the config file. Just make sure you throw away all the lines you > don't need (it doesn't handle comments) and put keyword=value entries > in exactly like it says (the new version tries to be a bit more tolerant). I'm sorry I'm a bit confused here. Do I need to remove all unnecessary lines from the chg-zd-mtx.sh file or from the mtx-changer.conf file? > John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a lot again, I really appreciate your help. Greg
