On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:57:23PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:34:32PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:03:21PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:15:35PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:27:30PM -0600, Deb Baddorf wrote: > > > > > > > > > And did you put a file "exclude.gtar" in there? > > > > > > > > Yes, I did, and that got rid of the message. But if amanda needs this > > > > file, why doesn't it just create it? > > > > > > Because it is a file you create specifying what you want to exclude. > > > If you don't want to use it, don't list it in amanda.conf. > > > > It wasn't necessary with 2.4.2 If it's necessary for 2.4.3, then why > > isn't it installed with or created by that version? > > Perhaps it is an added extra check that that should have been in 2.4.2. > Extra checking is not a bad thing. > > The file is not necessary. Only if you leave the line uncommented in > the dumptype, then the file is necessary. But an empty file does no good > and amanda has no idea what you want to put in there so it can not be > populated automatically. The amcheck error reminds you, create and put > something into the file or get rid of the line in the dumptype.
You can also use the optional argument to exclude specification. -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
