On Saturday 04 January 2003 18:42, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM -0600, Douglas K. Rand wrote:
>> >> > > > And did you put a file "exclude.gtar" in there?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Yes, I did, and that got rid of the message. But if
>> >> > > amanda needs this file, why doesn't it just create it?
>> >> >
>> >> > Because it is a file you create specifying what you want to
>> >> > exclude. If you don't want to use it, don't list it in
>> >> > amanda.conf.
>> >>
>> >> It wasn't necessary with 2.4.2 If it's necessary for 2.4.3,
>> >> then why isn't it installed with or created by that version?
>>
>> Jon> Perhaps it is an added extra check that that should have
>> been in Jon> 2.4.2. Extra checking is not a bad thing.
>> Jon> The file is not necessary.
>>
>> I really liked how it behaved in 2.4.2. You told Amanda to tell
>> gnu-tar to use an exclude file. Amanda didn't care if the
>> exclude file was there or not, and actually gnu-tar didn't care
>> very much either. Gnu-tar emits a warning that the exclude file
>> doesn't exist, and so it won't use it.
>
>I'm surprised at your observations.
>gnutar on my system terminates with an error if the exclude file
> is missing.
>
>OPPS, ran some tests last evening and assumed -- never assume --
>that the error message, error exit status, and very fast
> completion meant it did not do the tar dump.
>
>Just checked again. Turns out it does.
>
>Sorry for the mis-information.
Jon, I wonder if that was one of the things adjusted in how tar
works between 1.13-19 and 1.13.-25 because I can recall in the
earlier days haveing it exit without generating the tarfile, and
that was the reason at the time. Whenever it gained the ability to
have a .exclude file in a local directory to be skipped seems to be
about the right time frame to me. OTOH, I don't have either hand
anywhere near a bible, so take it for what its worth, possibly
nothing.
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