I agree with Cait. Samples definitely help me learn / catch on to what I am trying solve / configure.
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 12:53, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: > 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 >
