Thanks Gene,
I'm sure it had something to do with a PATH statement somewhere but the fix I found to work was move the original tar in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin and put links to the GNUtar in their place. I got this suggestion from the yahoo group surrounding amanda. Now that I have amanda working correctly I get to try and figure out this whole dumpcycle thing }:> Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 17:41, Scott Sanders wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I've got amanda up and running pretty well now with the local dump > > s/w. I'd like to have the GNUtar at my disposal as well but even > > after installing it and deleting the config.cache files, > > re-running configure amcheck still can't find it. will running > > make clean or make distclean solve this? > > distclean might, Scott. I was in error when I said it had to be > findable by the configuration tool. Then someone else says you > have to find tar and tell ./configure with an option line where its > at. > > Or at least that was somebody elses advice, but I'm *not* doing that > and I *am* using tar, so there seems to be some amount of room for > 'interpretation' I guess. > > In any event, here is the script I use to run configure. I use it > so there aren't any surprises when I migrate to the each new > release of the 2.4.3b3 series as they come out. > ----------------------- > #!/bin/sh > make clean > rm -f config.status config.cache > ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk \ > --with-owner=amanda --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 \ > --with-changer-device=/dev/sg1 --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr/local \ > --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ > --with-tape-server=192.168.1.3 --with-amandahosts \ > --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda > ------------------------- > In other words, I don't do "./configure" but "./gh-cf" which is the > local name of that shell script above. > > From that, you can see that I'm not setting it with an option. > tar-1.13-25 is in my PATH as root, or as user amanda. > You should unpack it as root, then before cd'ing to the unoacked > directory, do "chown -R amanda:disk amanda-version", then su to > amanda, build it, exit to root and instal. That way all the perms > to run it are properly set. > > >Thanks for all the great help everyone > > -- > Cheers, Gene > AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M > Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M > 99.06% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly -- Scott Sanders Systems Administrator Concepts Direct, Inc. 2950 Colorful Ave. Longmont, CO 80504 (303) 682-7110 Phone (303) 682-7140 Fax
