I know that I can specify the tape device via CLI, or with settape in 
amrecover.  I was curious why it's default value isn't set to /dev/st0, when:

1) it is listed in the man page as such 
2) was compiled with that value when I passed the --with-tape-device=/dev/st0 
parameter to ./configure

-Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:48 PM
> To: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
> Subject: Re: amrecover question
> 
> 
> Hi, Robert,
> 
> on Donnerstag, 01. April 2004 at 21:21 you wrote to amanda-users:
> 
> DRC> What can I do to correctly set the default settape 
> variable in amrecover to /dev/st0?
> 
> My amrecover tells me:
> 
> Usage: amrecover [[-C] <config>] [-s <index-server>] [-t 
> <tape-server>] [-d <tape-device>]
> 
> So it would work with:
> 
> amrecover -d /dev/st0 ....
> 
> If you roll your own binaries, you could configure your sources with
> 
> configure --with-tape-device= /dev/st0
> 
> 
> -- 
> best regards,
> Stefan
> 
> Stefan G. Weichinger
> mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at
> 
> 
> 
> 
>