On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 Toomas Aas wrote:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Charles Curley wrote:
I believe running amcheck during an amdump run is a harmless error.
It doesn't probably do any harm, but it turns out that in this case
the mail report is still sent, containing these warnings:
WARNING: skipping tape test because amdump or amflush seem to be running
WARNING: if they are not, you must run amcleanup
Which leads me to next question - what is the best way to detect, in a
script, that amdump or amflush is running? Off the top of my head I
can only think of something like 'ps | grep amdump', but that doesn't
seem very elegant. I tried to read amcheck.c to find out how Amanda
herself does it, but IANAP...
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Toomas Aas
