On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> Does amanda use /tmp for anything other than writing the debug files?
> 
> I ask because it seems to me that the backups themselves may be more
> important than the debug files it can not write.
> 
> Rather than controlled clean-up and terminate, perhaps a flag in
> the debug message writing routines (are they self-contained as a
> library function) could be used to stop write attempts and let the
> backups proceed without debug files.

Lots of things use /tmp, unfortunately including the external
applications that Amanda runs.  For example, it may not be possible to
send mail in that circumstance.

That said, the 'debug_printf' function (common-src/debug.c:67) is
responsible for debug output.  It calls through to fpritnf and vfprintf,
but doesn't check the error return from either of those.  So when /tmp
fills up, Amanda will simply stop writing debug messages as you've
described.

If someone would like to do some additional investigation and suggest a
fix or even submit a patch, that would be great!

Dustin

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        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/