On Monday 12 February 2007 01:52, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: >Hi, > >I took a test backup of a filesystem containing the >home directories of all the users. The email sent by >amanda after the completion of the backup contains the >following errors for various files: > >? gtar: <path_to_the_file>: Warning: No such file or >directory #observed several times > >| gtar: <path_to_the_file>: socket ignored #observed > >once > >I would like to know whether these errors are serious >(especially the second error). > If the email collector was active at the same time, it may not mean very much. And tar doesn't follow unix sockets AFAIK. Never has that I know of. Here, due to the fetchmail/procmail activity while amanda is running, I get a lot of "file changed as we read it" warnings, but the worst that could be is an email message that's come in since the file was opened by tar.
>Thanks > >Yogesh > > > >________________________________________________________________________ >____________ Don't pick lemons. >See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. >http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
