On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:21:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us: > I note that the Gentoo build defaults to 'localhost' for the server address, > which should _always_ be 127.0.0.1, and hence unambiguous. I trust the > Gentoo devs implicitly. IMHO, they're right up there with the Debian > package maintainers in knowledge and experience. I did, however, use the > FQDN for the server in the ebuild, which I prefer in any event.
It is not unambiguous since *every* machine is localhost with an address of 127.0.0.1. Unfortunately that's a problem with binary packages and amanda in that yes, backing up with localhost/127.0.0.1 will always work, but it can fail at restore time and can cause other crazy problems occasionally. It is the same situation in the redhat packages, which is why I always grab the source rpm and rebuild with the right options for my server. Sounds like that's what you did and is IMHO the best way to do it if you want to keep the tracking of packages while using amanda in the best manner. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
