Dmitry Likhachev wrote:
I try to use amanda 2.4.2p2 patched with tar-1.12.patch and regex-3.6alpha.patch...
Amanda have been compiled with following options:
--without-server
--with-user=bin
--with-group=bin
--with-gnutar='path to gnu-tar'
sendbackup: could not unlock /etc/amandates: Bad file number
What is wrong with /etc/amandates? It should be owned by user bin, and writeable by that user. (I guess that's correct, otherwise, you would
have a different errormsg, I believe.) Is the content corrupt maybe?
Try to start with an empty file.
Or do you have trouble with the locking-semantics on AIX? You did run a "make distclean" before you did "./configure --without-..." did you?
Tar 1.12 is old, so old, I don't remember if it can do listed-incremental, which is actually better than using /etc/amandates.
The "current" and proved working version of tar is tar-1.13.25, and can be downloaded from:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz
(There are known problems with 1.13.90-92, I don't know if they were solved in 1.13.94 which seems to be the latest alpha version. If you're
not in for experiments, stick to 1.13.25.)
P.S I was try to use amanda-2.4.2p2 without any patches and i again have this error.
patches??? The mentioned patch is for tar-1.12 and not for amanda. But better to use tar 1.13.25, and no patches at all; together with amanda 2.4.4p2 is fine, or one of the latest amanda snapshots which does contain some little minor patches:
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/amanda-2.4.4p2-20040429.tar.gz
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