Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:42:23 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump says "fopen on /dev/tty failed" (was: no subject) Message-ID: <199606131442.OAA21061@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199606131256.NAA05764@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> (af@biomath.jussieu.fr)
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>>>>> "Alain" == af <af@biomath.jussieu.fr> writes:
Alain> Any chance that this dump is being run in a non-interactive
Alain> environment ? (cron, at, some local batch system, etc.)
Alain> When switching tapes, dump *really* wants a human to type
Alain> "y" or
Yep. If you want to automate your dumps, a tool like `expect' is a
lot more appropriate.
Of course, there's also `amanda' ...
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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