AMGETCONF(8)AMGETCONF(8)NAMEamgetconf - look up amanda.conf variables
SYNOPSISamgetconf [config] parameter
DESCRIPTION
Amgetconf looks up parameters in amanda.conf, the Amanda configuration
file, or from the build and runtime environment, and returns their cor‐
responding value.
If config is not specified, amgetconf assumes it is being run from the
configuration directory and that amanda.conf is present.
If parameter begins with build., the (case insensitive) string follow‐
ing the period is a build environment variable. Variables without a
value (e.g. XFSDUMP on a system that does not support that type of
file system) will not report an error and will return an empty string
as the value. Flag variables (e.g. USE_AMANDAHOSTS) will return 1 if
the flag is set or an empty string if it is not.
If parameter begins with dbopen., the string following the period is a
program name and an Amanda debug file will be created for the caller.
The name of the file is returned.
If parameter begins with dbclose., the string following the period is a
program name previously used with dbopen., followed by a colon (:) and
the previously opened file name.
See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.
EXAMPLE
Find out the path to the log file directory:
% amgetconf daily logdir
/usr/local/etc/amanda//daily
Find out the current tape type:
% amgetconf daily tapetype
DLT4000-IV
Find out the default configuration directory:
% amgetconf daily build.CONFIG_DIR
/usr/local/etc/amanda/
Create, use and close a debug file in a script:
% set debug_file = `amgetconf daily dbopen.myscript`
% echo debug information >> $debug_file
% amgetconf daily dbclose.myscript:$debug_file
MESSAGES
amgetconf: no such parameter param
Parameter param is not a known keyword (e.g. not a valid
amanda.conf keyword). In this case, amgetconf will write "BUGGY"
to stdout as the value.
SEE ALSOamanda(8)AMGETCONF(8)
