Charles,

Good call but did not need to get GNU egrep.

Solaris has POSIX egrep which I did not have in my path.

Just added /usr/xpg4/bin at the beginning of my PATH statement resolved the 
problem.

Thanks

Robert




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Curley [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 1:28 PM
> To: McGraw, Robert P; amanda-users
> Subject: Re: egrep syntax error
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> 
> On Tue, 10 May 2011 12:11:33 -0400
> "McGraw, Robert P" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Throughout the compile I get the egrep syntax error. It does not seem
> > to cause problems as the compile completes and the test all run
> > correctly.
> 
> Coming from a completely non-Solaris background, I wonder if the
> problem is that you should be using GNU egrep rather than the one that
> comes with Solaris. Amanda does require GNU tar if you want tar backups.
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