RE: "strange output"

I ran into this problem with Tru64 UNIX and the vdump command used by Amanda on that platform. I added a line to the "re_table" structure in client-src/sendbackup-dump.c to match the output of that command that was not being matched by the existing entries. I am not aware of any ability to add lines to the re_table structure other than by recompiling, so that may be your only hope.

A line like:

AM_NORMAL_RE("^ *SUDO:"),

added to the file should do the trick. Of course, this will permit any line containing SUDO to pass through as normal.

Don

Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
E-mail: Donald.Ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy L. Mordkoff [mailto:jlm AT TataraSystems DOT com]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 9:10 AM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: "strange output"

I have added a wrapper to /sbin/dump to lock and unlock my vobs. The output from my script (which I send to stderr) is flagged by Amanda as "strange output", for example...

FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/-- lux2 sda5 lev 1 STRANGE

sendbackup: start [lux2:sda5 level 1]

sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump

sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/sbin/restore -f... -

sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz

sendbackup: info end

? SUDO: /vobs/admin

? SUDO: Locked versioned object base "/vobs/admin".

? SUDO: /vobs/client

? SUDO: Locked versioned object base "/vobs/client"

Is there a way to tell Amanda that these lines are expected? Even better would be to tell her that they are required, but I know that's a bit much to ask, as it would have to be on a per filesystem basis.

I plan to update my script to look like this in an attempt to fool Amanda into thinking its legit output:

sudo -u ccadmin ~ccadmin/lockvobs 2>&1 | perl -n -e 'print "DUMP: $_";' >&2

so that every line will start with "DUMP: "

but this feels like a hack.

Any comments?

JLM

P.S. The worst thing about viruses is the amount of time and bandwidth people spend complaining about them. - JLM

Jeremy Mordkoff

Tatara Systems

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