On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:22:37AM -0400, Shashi Kanbur wrote: > I have two questions which I hope some can help me with: > > My AMANDA server is running on a Debian linux machine and this can > backup my Debian linux AMANDA clients fine. I have a couple of > Irix 6.5 clients. The AMANDA client compiles ok. > If I put in the disklist file the backup to use gnutar, > amcheck says it cant find the program GNUTAR despite the fact that > gnu tar is in /sbin, /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin and so on.
The tar that is in /sbin on IRIX systems[0] is _NOT_ GNUtar. IRIX tar is very different from GNUtar and not compatible with Amanda's GNUtar dumper driver. If you install the latest GNUtar SGI Freeware package[1] you will get a version of GNUtar that is compatible with Amanda, but it will be installed in /usr/freeware/bin. You will need to configure Amanda like so: ./configure --with-gnutar=/usr/freeware/bin/tar [0] and symlinked in /bin and /usr/bin [1] http://freeware.sgi.com/Installable/tar-1.13.25-sgipl1.html HTH, Brandon D. Valentine -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geekpunk.net Pseudo-Random Googlism: unix is still strong in nt battle
