From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 1 4:18: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F2D37B404 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 04:17:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from unity.zacha.xs4all.nl (zacha.xs4all.nl [213.84.201.224]) by smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g11CHulv035942; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:17:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from silver.zacha.xs4all.nl (silver.zacha.xs4all.nl [172.23.3.20]) by unity.zacha.xs4all.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g11CJQu20122; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:19:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from walter@binity.com) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:17:03 +0100 From: Walter Hop X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Educational Reply-To: walter@i.r00ted.it X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <5811592539.20020201131703@i.r00ted.it> To: "alexus" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fw: Cron /sbin/dump -0ua -f /dev/nrsa0 />/dev/null;/sbin/dump -0ua -f /dev/nrsa0 /usr>/dev/null In-Reply-To: <003201c1aae7$260e1930$0100a8c0@alexus> References: <003201c1aae7$260e1930$0100a8c0@alexus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to ml@db.nexgen.com, 01/02/2002] > why was dump aborted? > >> DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured >> DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. Apparently user interaction was required. This error signifies that dump wanted to ask you something via the terminal, but since dump was run from cron, there was no controlling terminal, so dump had no choice but to bail out. -- Walter Hop Updated contact information: http://www.binity.com/~walter/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message