On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:45:38AM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote: > What does STRANGE means?
Amanda looks through the stderr output from dump (or gtar) and tries to classify each message as either an error or benign verbosity. "STRANGE" means that there was a message that Amanda doesn't recognize, and so can't classify. As others have pointed out, you have to look at the particular message to determine for yourself whether it indicates a serious problem. (In your temp-file case, I kind of suspect it does...) This isn't relevent to your case, but for general reference: the messages that Amanda can recognize are in hard-coded lists in sendbackup-dump.c and sendbackup-gnutar.c. If you get a recurring STRANGE message and want Amanda to classify it for you, you can add an appropriate regex to the appropriate list. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"