malcolm wrote:
> Thanks all for the help so far. This is the news.
>
> The problem with onbar seems to have been fixed. It turned out to be
> that I had TAPEDEV set to /dev/null in the onconfig file. That has
> got me very confused as I am not using ontape so why does onbar look
> at the TAPEDEV. (I guess some developer somewhere has a good reason
> for that - but it doesn't make life any easier).

Are you sure it wasn't LTAPEDEV? Although OnBar doesn't use the OnTape
parameters directly, they do indirectly affect OnBar. That is, setting
LTAPEDEV to /dev/null will automatically clear your logs before OnBar can
back them up.

Cheers,
--
Mark.

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