On Monday 15 July 2002 12:09, Scott Sanders wrote: >not that I don't believe you, but I tried the --with-gnutar option > with no luck? Definitely a valid point though about replace OS > version software!
As Jon says below, it needs to be in "--with-gnutar=/usr/local/whatever/tar" style... And some os supplied software, tar in particular, needs to be replaced without asking any questions if its not 1.13-xx where xx is 19 or greater. Earlier stuff has a bad log format among other things and will effectively prevent any recovery attempts. I think RH was still shipping the broken one as late as 7.0, but don't make me lay a hand on the good book when I say that. >Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:33:20AM -0600, Scott Sanders wrote: >> > 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. >> >> Isn't the yahoo group just a reflection of this list? >> >> Many UNIX administrators would replacing the OS installed >> versions of "anything" improper. If there are differences in >> the vendor's tar and the gnutar you replace it with, it may >> affect other things of which you are unaware. >> >> configure has a specific option to tell it where the "gnutar" >> you want amanda to use is located. "--with-gnutar=....." It >> doesn't have to be in your PATH at all because it will be >> hardcoded during compile. >> >> -- >> Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> JG Computing >> 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 >> Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.06% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
