I am forwarding this from my partner SA.  Is this a know problem with a fix
or something newly discovered?

Thanks

Robert


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chapman Flack [mailto:jflack AT math.purdue DOT edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:03 PM
> To: Robert McGraw
> Subject: amrecover
> 
> 
> Robert,
> 
> Heads up - the cd command seems broken in the latest amrecover. The
> cdx command still works though, in case you need to recover something.
> 
> Could you forward this to whoever was working with you on patching
> other problems in amanda recently? I'm not sure this isn't something
> only we are seeing, so I don't know if it's in the exact distributed
> sources or it's connected somehow to modifications here.
> 
> Here's what happens:
> 
> AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2-20070523. Contacting server on zorn ...
> 220 zorn AMANDA index server (2.5.2-20070523) ready.
> Setting restore date to today (2007-05-30)
> 200 Working date set to 2007-05-30.
> 200 Config set to daily.
> Trying host zorn.math ...
> 501 Host zorn.math is not in your disklist.
> Trying host zorn ...
> 200 Dump host set to zorn.
> Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover
> amrecover> setdisk /export/users-j
> 200 Disk set to /export/users-j.
> amrecover> setdate 2007-05-29
> 200 Working date set to 2007-05-29.
> amrecover> cd jflack
> amrecover: regex "/jflack/$/": unknown regex error
> 
> ... and amrecover exits out to the shell.
> 
> The trouble seems to be in set_commands.c where cd_glob()
> appends a /$ to the target directory, and then calls
> cd_dir() which appends another / so the result is a regex
> where $ is not the last character, and that's invalid.
> 
> Browsing the CVS shows that some of this stuff was changed
> in set_commands.c in the last few months. It's kind of
> surprising though to have something as noticeable as cd not
> working go unnoticed, so I am not sure why I haven't found it
> discussed.
> 
> The reason cdx still works is it treats the argument you give
> as a regex already, so doesn't break it by adding extra
> characters.
> 
> -Chap

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