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Date:      Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:22:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
To:        Scott Mitchell <scott@uk.freebsd.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Dump/restore from Linux to FreeBSD machine
Message-ID:  <20011107101948.F44499-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <000701c167b0$380ff740$1680010a@msapama.apama.com>

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On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Scott Mitchell wrote:

>   DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Nov  7 17:07:50 2001
>   DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
>   DUMP: Dumping /dev/md0 (/raid (dir /export/cvs)) to standard output
>   DUMP: Label: none
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> cannot open /dev/tty: Device not configured
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
>   DUMP: estimated 2952166 tape blocks.
>   DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Wed Nov  7 17:08:13 2001
> Level 0 dump of /raid (dir /export/cvs) on kakapo:/dev/md0
> Label: none
>   DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
>   DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
>   DUMP: Broken pipe
>   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

I'm betting that something on the Linux box's shell startup scripts
(.bashrc, etc) has something in it that requires a tty, and aborts if
there isn't one. Those sorts of things belong in the file .bash_profile,
which is only read when bash is invoked as a login shell.


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