I am forwarding this from my partner SA. Is this a know problem with a fix or something newly discovered?
Thanks Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Chapman Flack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:03 PM > To: Robert McGraw > Subject: amrecover > > > Robert, > > Heads up - the cd command seems broken in the latest amrecover. The > cdx command still works though, in case you need to recover something. > > Could you forward this to whoever was working with you on patching > other problems in amanda recently? I'm not sure this isn't something > only we are seeing, so I don't know if it's in the exact distributed > sources or it's connected somehow to modifications here. > > Here's what happens: > > AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2-20070523. Contacting server on zorn ... > 220 zorn AMANDA index server (2.5.2-20070523) ready. > Setting restore date to today (2007-05-30) > 200 Working date set to 2007-05-30. > 200 Config set to daily. > Trying host zorn.math ... > 501 Host zorn.math is not in your disklist. > Trying host zorn ... > 200 Dump host set to zorn. > Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover > amrecover> setdisk /export/users-j > 200 Disk set to /export/users-j. > amrecover> setdate 2007-05-29 > 200 Working date set to 2007-05-29. > amrecover> cd jflack > amrecover: regex "/jflack/$/": unknown regex error > > ... and amrecover exits out to the shell. > > The trouble seems to be in set_commands.c where cd_glob() > appends a /$ to the target directory, and then calls > cd_dir() which appends another / so the result is a regex > where $ is not the last character, and that's invalid. > > Browsing the CVS shows that some of this stuff was changed > in set_commands.c in the last few months. It's kind of > surprising though to have something as noticeable as cd not > working go unnoticed, so I am not sure why I haven't found it > discussed. > > The reason cdx still works is it treats the argument you give > as a regex already, so doesn't break it by adding extra > characters. > > -Chap
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