On Saturday 22 June 2013 21:39:51 Steven Backus did opine: > I would like to add a hearty "me too" to this problem. In > amanda.conf I have: > > printer "SteveLaser" > > yet mysteriously my output is going to the device ColorLaser. This > has happened to me in the past and I just wait for awhile and it > starts going to SteveLaser again. Recently I moved amanda to a new > machine and now it's going to ColorLaser again. I'm waiting > patiently but if anyone knows of a fix, or if I can help debug > this, bring it on. > > Steve
I'll second that too Steve. I changed the system default printer to the HL2140 yesterday, but I had a blank sheet of paper on the NX515's output shelf this morning. No email either, but that could have been a perms problem, so I just touched /var/spool/mail/amanda, as root, the chowned it to amanda:disk which is the amanda user/group on this machine. My mailwatcher script will catch that and tell kmail to go get that, if that was the missing mail problem. The filter to the amanda folder has been setup in kmail for several years. The 2 client machines were backed up last night ok too, seems the exclude file MUST live in the same named directory on the clients as on the server, so a wee bit of copy/paste & so on fixed that. I have grepped the whole /etc tree without finding a clue, I put a printer statement in the tapetype section of amanda.conf as suggested but that gave amcheck a strangulated hernia, so now I have put it immediately under the dumpuser line, and have made sure amanda is in suitable lines of the /etc/group file. There HAS to be an answer to this someplace. amgetconf has no concept of either listing everything, or recognizing printer as a keyword. Its turning into about a 10-33 tor vacuum, eg really really sucks. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct. -- William of Occam A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens.
