Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:21:32PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff enlightened > us: > > I recently updated my linux distro from Mandrake 10.1 to 10.2. Rather > > foolishly, I decided to upgrade Amanda from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 at the same > > time. [I know - only change one thing at a time :( ] > > > > Anyway, the result was that Amanda would no longer work, with the > > dreaded "selfcheck request timed out". Finally, after much pulling out > > of hair, I tracked down the cause to amandad not starting, because of a > > dependancy on libintl.so.2, while the new distro only provides > > libintl.so.3. As a quick fix, I symlinked .2 to .3, and got Amanda > > working. > > > > Question: why this dependance on a rather ancient (2003) library? Will > > it hurt to stick with the symlink, or should I obtain a .2 library? > > How did you install amanda? If it was a pre-built RPM, then chances are > that the build machine had libintl.so.2 on it. This is a good argument for > building your own amanda either from source or via SRPMs. > Indeed; I built it from source... -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England
