Hi Chris, Upgrade, it was fixed a year ago. You can upgrade only the amverify script if you want.
Jean-Louis On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:38:14AM +0100, Chris Karakas wrote: > Hello, > > after upgrading to SuSE 7.3, I found that my amverify script > (amanda-2.4.1p1) did not work properly - it told me that VOLUME is > "matches" and Date is "file": > > Volume matches, Date file > > (actually, the first time I saw this I really thought the volume matches > a "date file" - this may indeed "mean" something, especially if the > first time you happen to use amverify in the past few months is after > the refreshing experience of an upgrade of 400 packages...;-). > > This comes from the write statement > > report "Volume $VOLUME, Date $DWRITTEN" > > so clearly VOLUME and DWRITTEN were computed wrongly. But how, since I > did not change the script at all? > > The answer is that, due probably to the upgrade from SuSE 6.2 to 7.3, > the behaviour of grep has changed. Indeed, for binary files, grep now > says: > > Binary file xxx matches > > instead of showing the line where the match happens. This may be good in > other occasions, but for amverify it has the effect that when grep is > used in the computation of TAPENDATE: > > TAPENDATE=`grep AMANDA: $TEMP/header | sed 's/^AMANDA: TAPESTART //'` > > grep will say > > Binary file /tmp/header matches > > so that when, a few lines further, we do > > set X $TAPENDATE > shift > VOLUME=$4 > DWRITTEN=$2 > > > VOLUME will be "matches" and DWRITTEN will be "file". > > The remedy is to use the -a option to grep in the TAPENDATE line: > > > ----------------------- > TAPENDATE=`grep -a AMANDA: $TEMP/header | sed 's/^AMANDA: > TAPESTART //'` > [ X"$TAPENDATE" = X"" ] \ > && report "** No amanda tape in slot" \ > && continue > set X $TAPENDATE > shift > VOLUME=$4 > DWRITTEN=$2 > ------------------------- > > I decided to post this curiosity, since I did not find any similar > message. > Please CC me - I am not on the list anymore. > > -- > Regards > Chris Karakas > Donīt waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
