On Friday 21 July 2006 11:29, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:17:37PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: >> On Friday 21 July 2006 15:58, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > I'm just as puzzled, I now have the latest 2.5.1p1-20060719 >> > installed and I have no such file either. >> > >> > Would the OP please supply the full path to this file? >> >> The filename is tapestatus and is created in the config directory >> (e.g., where amanda.conf resides). >> >> The bin responsible for it is chg-scsi. It grows in size in an >> amazing speed... >> >> The changer.conf file contains the line: >> tapestatus /var/amanda/ISR/tapestatus # here will some status >> infos be stored >> >> so that's where the filename comes from. The file seems to be opened >> and filled in scsi-changer-driver.c (lines 4558 and 4696 onwards). > >>From the low volume of comments about chg-scsi on this list >it seems few sites are using that changer. Thus our unfamiliarity >with its config and log files. Sorry. > I used it back when I had those %$# seagate 4586n's, which would have put the amanda version running someplace in the 2.4.3-4 area. I don't recall that file ever being more than 2 bytes long, and it pointed at the slot the tape presently loaded came from IIRC.
>Of course, as few people post to the list except with problems, >maybe the low volume speaks to the reliability of chg-scsi. It don't think it has that "r" word in its vocabulary from my experience. One of the reasons, not the strongest one, but certainly a consideration in abandoning it in favor of vtapes, was its refusal to issue a rewind before reading a tapes label block. Smartest move I ever made, my amanda troubles have shrunk to less than 1% of their former frequency. I think then even, that I was the only one useing chg-scsi in this lists membership, so my questions about it also went unanswered. I looked at the code to see if I might stumble over a way to fix it, but after a week of trying to understand that bowl of cooked, well stirred spagetti, I gave up. I can't offer positive assistance, my apologies. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
