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Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 22:00:08 +0200
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
From: Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se>
Subject: Re: What does this mean: cpio: /dev/tty: Device not configured 
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Hello and thanks for your reply!

Below is an extract from the backup-script. These are the only places
where cpio is used in the script, once for writing and once for verifying.
I can't see where cpio would write to /dev/tty, but I might miss something.

Please tell me my mistake if you see it.

BACKUP_FILES="/"
IGNORE_FILES="/c/\|/usr/local/squid/cache/\|/usr/spool/news/\|/proc/"

BACKUP=backup_all
LOG=/usr/local/etc/$BACKUP.log
TAPE=/dev/rst0

find $BACKUP_FILES -depth -print 2>>$LOG | grep -v $IGNORE_FILES | cpio -oB
-H newc 2>>$LOG > $TAPE

cpio -itvB -H newc >/dev/null 2>&1 < $TAPE

Thanks for your time!

Peter Olsson   pol@leissner.se

14:19 1998-05-05 -0700, you wrote:
>On Tue, 5 May 1998, Peter Olsson wrote:
>
>> We use cpio-based backup to tape. It has worked very good for a long
>> time but recently we get failures a couple of days per week because of
>> "cpio: /dev/tty: Device not configured".
>
>It's trying to tell you something but since it's not running on a tty
>(from cron maybe?) it can't create any output.
>
>Try ö&'ing the output to sendmail.
>
>Doug White                              ö University of Oregon  
>Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    ö Residence Networking Assistant
>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/üdwhite    ö Computer Science Major
>
>
>

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