Sun freeware site has amanda kit, at least Solaris 9, haven't checked Solaris 8.
It doesn't put things in /usr/local/sbin though, /opt/fw/ tree is used. I used it successfully when installing amanda client on Solaris x86. On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:29:58PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:09:18AM -0400, stan wrote: > > We just had a vendr upgrade several systems, and now I hve Saprc boxes with > > Solaris 2.8 on them. A quick check of the SunFreeware site doesn't seem to > > show an Amanda package for these machines. > > > > Can anyone point me to a Solaris 2.8 binary? I don't have compilers on > > these boxes, and I'm reluctant to load GCC etall, just to compile this oen > > package. > > > > > On the Sun's BigAdmin site, there is an article from October > describing the compiling and installing of amanda. The version > used in the article is 2.4.4.p1 but the instructions would be > just as applicable to the current version. > > Particularly interesting is the instructions for how to create > a System V package for the client software so that could be > a simple "pkgadd" operation. > > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/backups_amanda.html > > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773
