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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:17:03 +0100
From:      Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>
To:        "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fw: Cron <root@db> /sbin/dump -0ua -f /dev/nrsa0 />/dev/null;/sbin/dump -0ua -f /dev/nrsa0 /usr>/dev/null
Message-ID:  <5811592539.20020201131703@i.r00ted.it>
In-Reply-To: <003201c1aae7$260e1930$0100a8c0@alexus>
References:  <003201c1aae7$260e1930$0100a8c0@alexus>

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[in reply to ml@db.nexgen.com, 01/02/2002]

> why was dump aborted?
>
>>   DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured
>>   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

Apparently user interaction was required. This error signifies that dump
wanted to ask you something via the terminal, but since dump was run from
cron, there was no controlling terminal, so dump had no choice but to bail
out.

--
 Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>
 Updated contact information: http://www.binity.com/~walter/


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