Paul Bijnens wrote: > Not 100% true actually. Gnutar produces some output on stderr which > amanda classifies as "normal" (can safely be ignored), "error" (needs > to be flagged as error to the user, and implies that this dump is not > correct and will not be put on tape if dumping to holdingdisk). > And a third category "strange": all the other messages not falling in > category "error" or "normal". > > When amanda detects strange or failed "lines", it shows them all, > including the normal ones. The normal ones are preceded by a pipe > symbol as above. The "error" and "strange" lines are preceded by a > question mark. > > That means that the above line is not seen as an error. And would > that be the only output of tar, amanda would not have bothered you > with those details. > It is only there to provide some context of the next line (if the > error lines need to be interpreted in context, as e.g. samba error > message often do, this helps a lot.). >
Well, I stand corrected (and learned something in the process). I was going to make a comment about this behavior not being adequately documented, but it looks like it is, although in the dumperapi.txt file, which I had never looked at. There is a mention of the '?' in using.txt but it doesn't explain '|' (normal) vs, '?' (strange) vs. '&' (error) as the dumperapi.txt does. If the explanation hasn't been included in the general use docs yet (I'm looking at a 2.4.5 source tree), it should be. Thanks for the enlightenment, Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
