#773946 /usr/sbin/amstatus: Log spam about uninitialized values (unsure of impact)

Package:
amanda-server
Source:
amanda
Description:
Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Server)
Submitter:
Daniel Dickinson
Date:
2015-01-08 19:57:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
#773946#5
Date:
2014-12-26 05:31:26 UTC
From:
To:
amstatus is reporting all kinds of unitialized value errors, which since I have
cron job that runs amstatus regularly to determine if a wake on lan is needed on
clients that might be being backed up, I get tons of log spam (since every run
of amstatus results in errors such as the ones below).

I'm not sure yet of the actual impace of these errors.


** (process:16121): WARNING **: Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 407, <AMDUMP> line 2452.


** (process:16121): WARNING **: Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 407, <AMDUMP> line 2452.


** (process:16121): WARNING **: Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 407, <AMDUMP> line 2461.


** (process:16121): WARNING **: Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 407, <AMDUMP> line 2461.


** (process:16121): WARNING **: Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 407, <AMDUMP> line 2470.


** (process:16121): WARNING **: Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 407, <AMDUMP> line 2470.
#773946#10
Date:
2015-01-08 19:47:43 UTC
From:
To:
This errors should be armless.  But by chance are you running amstatus
as root or as backup user?

I have that kind of errors when running as root instead of backup
user.

     Jose M Calhariz