From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Mar 18 10:22:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA15682 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:22:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA15653 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:22:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA14397; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:20:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA02886; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:06:08 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970318190608.MB59901@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:06:08 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), mayleung@cuhk.edu.hk Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/3020: remote dump failed References: <199703181650.IAA06906@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703181650.IAA06906@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Bill Fenner on Mar 18, 1997 08:50:03 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bill Fenner wrote: > If the "rmt" program is not in your path on the remote machine, you need > to use the RMT environment variable to tell dump where the program is > located. No, the rdump ``protocol'' used to use /etc/rmt explicitly. 4.4BSD broke this which was a bad idea. Revision 1.2 of dumprmt.c reverted to the traditional protocol. It is available this way in FreeBSD 2.2 or higher. Note that /etc/rmt is usually a symlink to the actual location on all today's systems, but that doesn't matter. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)