Hi, Filip, on Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2005 at 15:08 you wrote to amanda-users:
>> Do you use /etc/amanda instead of the common /usr/local/etc/amanda? >> I have to adjust this then. FR> You are right, should be consistent with the rest of the docs. Edited this to $prefix/etc/amanda to be consistent. >> Please tell me what that tcpserver-step does do, I don't have this >> binary here and I am afraid other amanda-users don't have this one as >> well. FR> The tcpserver program (a part of ucspi-tcp package, FR> http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html) is a standard TCP wrapper for FR> daemontools-enabled servers. FR> So I think you can safely leave it, as anybody using daemontools FR> will probably have it anyway. Yep, I once again replied before doing proper backchecks (trying to reduce workload ... maybe a lame excuse ... ). Left that in. >> Same question for nc .... FR> Standard daemontools setup does not assume setting up UDP services. So it lacks FR> an udp super-server. But many people I asked mentioned netcat: FR> http://netcat.sourceforge.net/. Also the ucspi-tcp page mentions it. FR> And, LBNL, netcat is packaged for most major Linux distros. FR> So I use it for amanda server when I don't want to fire up (x)inetd. Ok again, I just substituted "nc" with "netcat". FR> I realize it may sound a bit messy, but actually it is "the Way":) FR> If it's not clear - never mind - I'll publish a howto somewhere, with full FR> explanation, to straighten things up:) Please share your somewhere-howto with us. I committed your notes to the current cvs-version of install.xml (as alternative to (x)inetd, as suggested), they will be online at amanda.org pretty soon. Maybe you could also post your runfiles to http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html ? Thanks for contributing. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
