Hi All. I tried installing Amanda 3.2.0 using rpms ditributed at zmanda download page. During install process, I saw its progress suspend in a few minutes.
I examined what caused this by "ps" command and found out "wget" command humper the progress. # ps -eH --width 8192 --noheaders -o ppid,pid,args 2968 3035 rpm -ivh amanda-backup_client-3.2.0-1.rhel5.i386.rpm 3035 3074 /bin/sh /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.41701 1 3074 3161 /usr/bin/wget -q -o /dev/null -O - --timeout=5 http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-tips.php?version=3.2.0&os=rhel5&type=server I think "wget" is not a necessary step to make installation completed because it seems to be used to show tips from Zmanda site to operators. The purpose of "--tiemout=5" would be to prevent "wget" humpers the install process on the hosts that cannot reach Zmanda site. But "wget" retries to download the specified page twenty times by default, so "wget" wastes a hundred seconds to abort. I hope that future releases of Amanda won't have this problem because I have a lot of hosts that cannot reach Zmanda site. Adding "--tries=1" to "wget" can be cure for this problem. Sincerely. -- Kazuhiro Takenaka <[email protected]>
