Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:49:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Subject: Re: Input on changing "dump" output? Message-ID: <199610300649.HAA09403@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <96Oct29.182310pst.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Oct 29, 96 06:23:01 pm"
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As Bill Fenner wrote: > Does anyone think that the addition of the first line, > DUMP: Connection to nectar.parc.xerox.com established. > is going to cause anyone (automated backup scripts, etc.) any trouble? I think the only thing you are not allowed to change is the DUMP: DUMP: 446124 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s) line to avoid the silly second "DUMP:". I once did, and people started screaming... i simply didn't know that Amanda does such a stupid job in parsing the output. (Presumably a hard-coded scanf() only.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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