From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 30 07:04:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA06408 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:04:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA06388 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:04:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id IAA25844; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:57:20 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199610301457.IAA25844@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Input on changing "dump" output? To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:57:19 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, fenner@parc.xerox.com In-Reply-To: <199610300649.HAA09403@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 30, 96 07:49:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text 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.) Hi Joerg, Bearing in mind that it a few years since I hacked on Amanda's internals to debug a problem like this, Amanda's problem is that it tries to parse a variety of formats from a variety of systems, and they range from moderately similar to totally dissimilar. It was icchhhy code when I looked at it. :-( It was iccchhhyer when I identified the reasons it was doing what it was doing. :-( :-( ... JG