On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:20:32AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > just stumbled over this. If I try to do a dump to a file which has a ':' > > in its name or path, dump tries to connect to a server (which is > > obvious as this is the notation for a remote dump). > > Precisely. > > > example: > > # dump -f some:file /var > > DUMP: rcmd: getaddrinfo: hostname nor servname provided, or not known > > DUMP: login to some as root failed. > > > > escaping (dump -f "some\:file" /var) does not work. > > Right; it's not the shell that you need to hide the colon from, so > escaping it in the shell syntax won't make any difference.
That's why I put the " aroud the name (trying to escape the colon to dump) > > > Is this behaviour > > intended? > > Yes; as you pointed out yourself, it's the notation for remote host > access. > > > Is there a workaround? (besides making a symlink w/o the : in > > the name or using another filename/path) > > I haven't tried this, but from looking at the man page, I might expect > > dump -f /path/to/dump/dir/some\:file > > to work... Sorry no, this way the colon is just escaped in the shell. > > -- > Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: > resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ > username/password "public" thanks anyway Ste _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"