On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:46:08PM +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote:
>
> d) I was looking into pre-post dump actions (eg to stop a database or email
> delivery)
> I found the tips to write a specialized tar (amgtar) script which does
> this.
> My question however is whether the protocol between server and client
> could
> handle this, or at least handle whether a pre-post function is to be
> called and
> its results etc.
>
> I understand that security is an issue, which means that which scripts
> are allowed to
> run on each client should be controlled on that client itself, which
> speaks for a
> local amgtar.
>
> Does anyone already have such a script which is flexible to support
> several pre/post
> dump (and pre/post estimate?) scripts as well as handles errors in such
> scripts?
Quite a while ago JRJ posted the attached readme and wrapper script.
I've not used them, just still have them available.
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gtarwrapper.README
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gtarwrapper.ksh
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