This exercise relates to a requirement that I be able to install a working Bacula on a computer in the event that our production Bacula server failed. The test was a success, but with some qualifications.
In the first place, our working Bacula server is on Red Hat. Since we are a Novell shop, my boss wanted me to run this exercise on a SuSE distro. I used SLES 9.3 and got somewhat peculiar results. I installed SLES 9.3 from the same CD set on two computers. The only difference in the installs is that on computer #2, I neglected to choose the gcc suite, while on computer #1 I chose the c develpment tools during install. I installed the same version of Bacula (3.3.6, the version that is on the production server) on each computer, but encounter an error when I run make on computer #1. No errors on computer #2. Here is the error: usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -ltermcap My research has indicated that this is the library for the termcap program, and I used YaST to install termcap; I could find no entries for "ltermcap" or "libtermcap". How can I get this package onto my server? I posted this question on the Novell discussion forum, and the answer was that, for the last ten years only Red Hat has used libtermcap. I was advise to try linking to -lncurses instead, with the admonition that I would need to install ncurses-devel. I am sure I would have to edit a make file to handle this. I am certainly willing to attempt this, though I have little doubt that I will be groping around a bit, since I am new to this realm. I do know how to use an editor, though. It is still curious, isn't it, that make ran without problems on one computer and not on another when they were both set up with the same CDs, both of the OS and the app? Does anyone have any comments or advice? Richard White Network Engineer Mason County, Washington _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
