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FreeBSD 3.0

chg-scsi was not updated to support the new camlib.h-dependent chio.h, so chg-scsi will be automatically disabled if camlib.h is found. You may use chg-chio instead.

FreeBSD 4.7

Found this in the amanda list archives. Was regarding FreeBSD 4.11, but worked on my 4.7.

Re: amanda 2.5.1 doesn't compile on FreeBSD 4.11 - atoll

Error: 

.libs/amandad amandad.o ./.libs/libamandad.so
../common-src/.libs/libamanda.so -lm -lreadline -ltermcap -lcam
../common-src/.libs/libamanda.so: undefined reference to `atoll'
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/local/src/amanda/amandad-src.
*** Error code 1

Solution: 

1.Edit ./common-src/amanda.h file and modify this line:
Old line:
 # define OFF_T_ATOI (off_t)atoll
New line:
 # define OFF_T_ATOI (off_t)atol
2. run autogen
3. run configure
4. run make

This issue will be fixed in 2.5.1p2 release and post-2.5.1 releases.

FreeBSD 4.9

Sep. 28th, 2004: Jason Miller <[email protected]> reported problems with setting up the AMANDA-client on FreeBSD 4.9. He wrote:

Due to the need for read permissions for AMANDA-client the default user and group for this on FreeBSD 4.9 is "operator:operator" which I found a write up on that as well. Just a note the port wanted to install it with these user permissions by default and I initially changed them to match my Redhat 9.0 install. So just doing a make distclean uninstall install AMANDA_SERVER=servername

fixed that for me. Then I just followed the below instructions and everything was good to go.

Refer to this link for more details: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=59302.

FreeBSD 5.1

Nicolas Ecarnot <[email protected]> discovered that for FreeBSD 5.1 (maybe earlier, and surely further), you have to set the net.inet.udp.maxdgram TCP/IP variable to 65535. The default is 9216, and this is a problem when trying to backup a large number of clients as indicated by errors in during amcheck or the estimate phase.

You can just run the command: 

sysctl net.inet.udp.maxdgram=63535

but this won't last until the next reboot.

To make it permanent, just add this line: 

net.inet.udp.maxdgram=65535

in the file /etc/sysctl.conf.

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