On Friday 16 November 2018 23:56:04 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 19:31:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > /usr/local/libexec/amanda/planner Daily coyote PublicA* > > [...] > > > planner: could not open log file (null): Bad address > > > > So the above last line seems to be the showstopper > > This sort of error is what you get when you try start using yourself > an "internal" utility -- there's a reason it's in the lib/amanda > directory rather than the bin directory :) > > In Amanda 3.5's planner it seems a log file is required, but since the > program is written under the asumption that it will always be called > by the driver process, there is no error checking to make sure it's > actually provided -- when it isn't, the program simply attempts to > open a file using uninintialized variable for the filename.... > > It seems the provided filename is used for writing to, so to avoid > confusion I'm guessing the best idea is to just write to a temporary > file unrelated to any log file that Amanda itself would create. > > So, for example, I got my Amanda 3.5.1 planner to run successfully > using the command: > > # su backup -c "/usr/lib/amanda/planner TestBackup --log-filename > /tmp/testplanner.log" > > (where "backup" is the Amanda Unix user, and TestBackup is my Amanda > config name) > And it works but because its doing real estimates, won't be done by the time the real run starts at 2:05. So I'll use a root htop and kill all amanda stuff by then. It did give me enough info before I killed it to show me I needed to adjust the includes to move some of the biggest to the smallest. Dunno if its enough till I look at the mail, after I've made a bit of sawdust.
Thanks Nathan, you've clarified that I can't query an individual dle except with a custom disklist. > > Nathan > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >------ Nathan Stratton Treadway - [email protected] - Mid-Atlantic > region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - > http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: > http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key > fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
