From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 29 22:53:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA08448 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:53:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA08443 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA23441; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:51:35 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA23118; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:51:18 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id HAA09403; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:49:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610300649.HAA09403@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Input on changing "dump" output? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:49:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <96Oct29.182310pst.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Oct 29, 96 06:23:01 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)