On Saturday 04 January 2003 18:42, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM -0600, Douglas K. Rand wrote: >> >> > > > And did you put a file "exclude.gtar" in there? >> >> > > >> >> > > Yes, I did, and that got rid of the message. But if >> >> > > amanda needs this file, why doesn't it just create it? >> >> > >> >> > Because it is a file you create specifying what you want to >> >> > exclude. If you don't want to use it, don't list it in >> >> > amanda.conf. >> >> >> >> It wasn't necessary with 2.4.2 If it's necessary for 2.4.3, >> >> then why isn't it installed with or created by that version? >> >> Jon> Perhaps it is an added extra check that that should have >> been in Jon> 2.4.2. Extra checking is not a bad thing. >> Jon> The file is not necessary. >> >> I really liked how it behaved in 2.4.2. You told Amanda to tell >> gnu-tar to use an exclude file. Amanda didn't care if the >> exclude file was there or not, and actually gnu-tar didn't care >> very much either. Gnu-tar emits a warning that the exclude file >> doesn't exist, and so it won't use it. > >I'm surprised at your observations. >gnutar on my system terminates with an error if the exclude file > is missing. > >OPPS, ran some tests last evening and assumed -- never assume -- >that the error message, error exit status, and very fast > completion meant it did not do the tar dump. > >Just checked again. Turns out it does. > >Sorry for the mis-information.
Jon, I wonder if that was one of the things adjusted in how tar works between 1.13-19 and 1.13.-25 because I can recall in the earlier days haveing it exit without generating the tarfile, and that was the reason at the time. Whenever it gained the ability to have a .exclude file in a local directory to be skipped seems to be about the right time frame to me. OTOH, I don't have either hand anywhere near a bible, so take it for what its worth, possibly nothing. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.21% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
