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Subject: Re: Dump/restore from Linux to FreeBSD machine
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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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