Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:56:54 -0700 From: Jens Haeusser <jens@zoology.ubc.ca> To: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Porting dump -F from Linux Message-ID: <B8E47316.35B9%jens@zoology.ubc.ca>
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Is anyone interested in porting the -F flag for dump from Linux? From the
Linux man page-
-F script
Run script at the end of each tape. The device name and the current
volume number are passed on the command line. The script
must return 0 if dump should continue without asking the user to
change the tape, 1 if dump dump should continue but ask the user
to change the tape. Any other exit code will cause dump to
abort. For security reasons, dump reverts back to the real user
ID and the real group ID before running the script.
This would really simplify my dump scripts- I'm currently having to use
expect to read from dump when to change tapes on my autoloader, but it's not
working so well. The source code for Linux dump is available from
http://dump.sourceforge.net . Unfortunately I'm not a coder, otherwise I'd
volunteer to do this myself, but this seems like a very useful option that
many people would use.
Jens Haeusser
Network Manager,
Zoology, UBC
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