Amanda-Users

Re: amrecover stuck on "set owner/mode for '.' "

2009-05-01 13:11:31
Subject: Re: amrecover stuck on "set owner/mode for '.' "
From: John Hein <jhein AT timing DOT com>
To: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 09:45:08 -0600
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 11:11 -0400 on May  1, 2009:
 > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Joe Konecny <jkonecny AT rmtohio DOT com> 
 > wrote:
 > > I just ran amrecover and successfully put a file into /tmp.
 > > amrecover prompted me "set owner/mode for '.'? [yn]" to
 > > which I answered "n" and hit enter.  Now it just sits there
 > > for over 30 minutes doing nothing.  What could be going on?
 > 
 > Hmm, I can only find that in the manpage, not the source.  Presumably
 > it's some old message which has since been removed.

This is tangential to the OP's problem, but it depends on what source
you're looking at.  That message is probably coming from the 'restore'
OS utility, not amanda.