--On Thursday, June 16, 2005 20:13:41 -0400 Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> 
wrote:
> 
> Backup programs like dump, tar, smbclient generate lots of
> messages that are informational fluff.  Amanda has hard coded
> lists of things to "not worry about".  Others amanda knows
> to print error reports about.
> 
> When one of the programs changes its fluff, sometimes even
> simple spacing changes, amanda may recognize the message as
> one to report as an error or ignore.  These get reported as
> "strange".
> 
> Some future version of amanda will have adjusted for the
> samba changes.
> 

Are there any plans to allow additional ignore patterns to be
specified in the amanda.conf file so that they could be filtered
out on the server side so as not to be reported as strange?
Editing source code and recompiling seems like overkill.

Frank


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