Re: RedHat Amandad xinetd.conf etc etc

2001-02-21 Thread Dirk Webster
Hi Holm I've just started with amanda on Red Hat. Spent a long night getting it working (with a lot of help from this list). Here's my entry in xinetd.conf... (not touched) == defaults { instances = 60 log_type= SYSLOG authpriv

Re: Newbie help please with amdump error message

2001-02-20 Thread Dirk Webster
Sorry about the etiquette.. I was expecting to converse via the mailing list but got a number of direct responses. nocomp-user program is set to DUMP Dirk - Original Message - From: "John R. Jackson" In the future, you might want to respond to the whole list. They're used to it

Newbie help please with amdump error message

2001-02-20 Thread Dirk Webster
Hi I've just installed amanda for the first time. A test amdump gives me the following report... FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost/etc lev 0 FAILED [disk /etc offline on localhost?] Any light-shining would be appreciated thanks Dirk

RESULT! - (was Newbie help please with amdump error message)

2001-02-20 Thread Dirk Webster
Hi - especially Chris Marble and John Jackson... What a wonderful thing sleep is... Based on various suggestions, I forced amanda to use GNUTAR. Running amcheck again, it complained about a non-existant directory (gnutar-lists) which I created amdump worked! Thanks Chris / John for responding