commands fail due to wrong paths set up.

[scott lorberbaum]

Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.1 LTS.. amanda version : 1:2.6.1p1-2

For right now. amserverconfig and amaddclient both fail because the paths that are looked for are not the correct ones. The directory structure that is created by the package is different than the included perl file Amanda: Paths and so running any of these commands leads to a nu such file or directory on many of the included files that do exist, but were put in new places.

amaddclient doesn't even take the proper paths from the Amanda: Paths file as they are set inside of the amaddclient program, unlike the amserverconfig that loads in the paths from the said perl file.

One of the main issues is the redundent use of the lib folder... in the amaddclient file,
 $localstatedir="/var/lib";
$amandahomedir="$localstatedir/lib/amanda";
obviously this comes out to /var/lib/lib/amanda... the directory that actually exists is /var/lib/amanda.

farther down inside amaddclient where .amandahosts is being redone-it fails and can't find the file...because the symbolic link is actually found in /var/backup..., but the setting for $amandahomedir is set to /var/lib/amanda...

amandates and the gnutar-lists are set in /var/lib/amanda and not in /var/backup

there are similar errors in the amserver config file with $localstatedir set wrong, and $amdata set wrong, as for me dir was installed to /usr/share/doc/amanda-common/examples/
..

anyways you get the point...am I the only one this is happening to?

i've been editing the command files myself but I assume when I update my amanda to a new version,(if these bugs aren't fixed) then my programs will break and thus my backup will stop...

Thanks for the hlep.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Adam-hardy (adam-hardy)]

Is this just a bug with the Ubuntu packaging then?

Is the best work-around to remove the amanda packages and to use the ones from zmanda's download page?