On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 04:12:57PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote:
> Some times it happens.
> 
> Usually amanda runs at 00:00. But some people take work home and it happens 
> sometimes.
> 
> It not very important, I just would like it not show on FAILURE AND STRANGE 
> DUMP SUMMARY 
> (I have a script that only sends me the report when this line apears) so I 
> had one less mail to check.
> 
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:49:56 -0400
> Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:44:56AM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote:
> > > Today I got this in the report from amanda. In this mail server we use 
> > > mbox and the user just deleted some mails.
> > > How can I let amanda know to not report file size changes in this DLE?
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > 
> > > Luis
> > > 
> > > 
> > > sendbackup: start [mailserver.aa.bb:/var/mail level 0]
> > > sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
> > > sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
> > > sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
> > > sendbackup: info end
> > > ? gtar: ./jondoe: File shrank by 20955 bytes; padding with zeros
> > > | Total bytes written: 1180221440 (1.1GB, 5.4MB/s)
> > > sendbackup: size 1152560
> > > sendbackup: end
> > > \--------
> > 
> > To my knowledge, it is not possible on a DLE by DLE basis.
> > It would have to be compiled in and apply to all DLEs.
> > 
> > But, wasn't this just a one-time thing that only happened
> > because "jondoe" happened to be deleting mail at exactly 
> > the moment gtar happened to be copying the file?  Or have
> > you seen this regularly, possibly for the same file each time?
> > 

As noted, you can recompile, possibly just sendbackup and its friends,
to ignore that type of message.  There is a list of them in the code
and it is easily extendable.

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