Re: Installation Help - tape backup

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Mugleston, Brad wrote:
> Thank you too, this is great help.  How do I set an environment variable?
> No config.sys that I can see :-)

Set it in your "~/.bashrc":

	VARIABLE-NAME="whatever";export VARIABLE-NAME

Or, for system wide, put the same stuff in /etc/bashrc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure earthlink net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:27 AM
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Installation Help - tape backup
>
> Support for it ((z)ftape) is part of the kernel.
> Add this line to your /etc/modules.conf:
>
> alias char-major-27 zftape
>
> Then watch /var/log/messages while you try to run something like
>
> mt -f /dev/nftape retension
>
> You may want to set the environment variable TAPE=/dev/nftape.  Then
> you won't have to specify the "-f /dev/nftape" for mt.
> Also you will probably want to make /dev/nqft0 world writable:
>
>  chmod 666 /dev/nqft0
>
> (nftape is a symlink to nqft0.)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,


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