Hi, John, and everyone else, On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:46, John P. Looney wrote: > I've just spent the last week battling with amanda from the Solaris 2.6 > package. Loads of wierd errors, loads of things not working. In part, > because of my ... reckless attempts at fixing the situation (the last > one, that took me ages to find was that I'd chown'd a load of setuid > files to root - and then amanda couldn't run them, as I'd chgrp'd them > to root, not amanda.
Gee... that sounds like my first experience with amanda in ths spring of '98. We were running a mix of Solaris 2.4-2.5 and BSDi. > > It worked fine like that. I'd not bother with example configs, bar > those installed by the source. Amanda does need a little thinking (I've > learned the hard way) and pain and suffering will ensue if people just > copy & paste from existing configs instead of reading the docs. I respectfully disagree. I am a visual learner. Once I see an example the instructions click in my head. Then I can create my own. The examples, though, are hugely helpful to me. The ones provided with RedHat were really good. Regards, Cait
