Hi All.
I tried installing Amanda 3.2.0 using rpms ditributed at zmanda
download page. During install process, I saw its progress suspend
in a few minutes.
I examined what caused this by "ps" command and found out "wget"
command humper the progress.
# ps -eH --width 8192 --noheaders -o ppid,pid,args
2968 3035 rpm -ivh amanda-backup_client-3.2.0-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
3035 3074 /bin/sh /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.41701 1
3074 3161 /usr/bin/wget -q -o /dev/null -O -
--timeout=5 http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-tips.php?version=3.2.0&os=rhel5&type=server
I think "wget" is not a necessary step to make installation
completed because it seems to be used to show tips from
Zmanda site to operators.
The purpose of "--tiemout=5" would be to prevent "wget"
humpers the install process on the hosts that cannot reach
Zmanda site. But "wget" retries to download the specified
page twenty times by default, so "wget" wastes a hundred
seconds to abort.
I hope that future releases of Amanda won't have this problem
because I have a lot of hosts that cannot reach Zmanda site.
Adding "--tries=1" to "wget" can be cure for this problem.
Sincerely.
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Kazuhiro Takenaka <purpleshadow < at > livedoor.com>
