On Sunday 16 January 2005 15:47, Kurt Raschke wrote: >On Jan 16, 2005, at 4:25 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: >> For the record: >> plain gtar 1.12 needs to be patched to handle large files (> 2GB). >> plain gtar 1.13 makes bad index-lists which amrecover cannot >> handle, as does the rarely used 1.13.9x, which changed the >> index-format again in an incompatible way. >> >> In production environment I use only 1.13.19 or 1.13.25 currently. > >There is also a tar 1.15 release out now; can anyone comment on its >compatibility with AMANDA? I'm asking mainly because 1.13.25 is >getting rather old. > >-Kurt
I'll find out tonight, I just got 1.15-1 and installed it, then added a line to my config driver script telling it where the new tar was, and its re-installing 2.4.5b1-20041221 now. amcheck seems to be happy, so tonights run should tell the story. As they say on the radio, stay tuned for further developements. Here, gtar was installed in /bin/gtar, and the new tar is in /usr/local/bin/tar' so the script I use got a new line: ---------------- #!/bin/sh # since I'm always forgetting to su amanda... if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then echo echo "!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!" echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user amanda," echo "but must be installed by user root." echo exit 1 fi make clean rm -f config.status config.cache ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-gnu-ld \ --prefix=/usr/local \ --with-tapedev="FILE:/amandatapes" \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=coyote.coyote.den \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda \ --with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/tar make ----------------- Hopefully this is enough to make it use the newer tar. It logs in as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda-2.4.5b1-20041221]$ /usr/local/bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 And I didn't give it anything special when I ran ./configure to build it. Should I have? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
