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9 amgetconf
\14 look up amanda.conf variables
13 amgetconf [config] parameter [ -o | configoption ]*
17 Amgetconf looks up parameters in amanda.conf, the Amanda configuration file, or
18 from the build and runtime environment, and returns their corresponding value.
19 If config is not specified, amgetconf assumes it is being run from the
20 configuration directory and that amanda.conf is present.
21 If parameter begins with build., the (case insensitive) string following the
22 period is a build environment variable. Variables without a value (e.g. XFSDUMP
23 on a system that does not support that type of file system) will not report an
24 error and will return an empty string as the value. Flag variables (e.g.
25 USE_AMANDAHOSTS) will return 1 if the flag is set or an empty string if it is
27 If parameter begins with dbopen., the string following the period is a program
28 name and an Amanda debug file will be created for the caller. The name of the
30 If parameter begins with dbclose., the string following the period is a program
31 name previously used with dbopen., followed by a colon (:) and the previously
33 See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.
40 See the "CONFIGURATION OVERWRITE" section in amanda(8).
45 Find out the path to the log file directory:
47 % amgetconf daily logdir
48 /usr/local/etc/amanda//daily
49 Find out the current tape type:
51 % amgetconf daily tapetype
53 Find out the default configuration directory:
55 % amgetconf daily build.CONFIG_DIR
56 /usr/local/etc/amanda/
57 Create, use and close a debug file in a script:
59 % set debug_file = `amgetconf daily dbopen.myscript`
60 % echo debug information >> $debug_file
61 % amgetconf daily dbclose.myscript:$debug_file
67 amgetconf: no such parameter param
68 Parameter param is not a known keyword (e.g. not a valid amanda.conf
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