From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 3 12:35:31 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95B337B401; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:35:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6385F43EB2; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:35:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gB3KZQh0013643; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:35:26 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id gB3KZIdL013611; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:35:18 -0800 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:35:17 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: "David O'Brien" , Brooks Davis , Kirk McKusick , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump dump.8 main.c Message-ID: <20021203123516.C4936@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200212031821.gB3IL9qc066627@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021203104801.A18375@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20021203202328.GA98990@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021203202328.GA98990@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:23:28PM -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:23:28PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:48:01AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > Would it be possiable/reasionable to add an out of band way to control > > this such as the existance of a file or a compile time option? I ask > > because some backup systems like amanda don't do a good job of letting > > you specify arguments to dump since dump support is rather hardwired. >=20 > I'd like to see a DUMP_OPTIONS env var analagious to the > {GREP,DIFF,GCC}_OPTIONS we have already. That would work for my purposes and it seems generally usable. Using this with amanda would probably require the slighly ugly hack of using /usr/bin/env in inetd.conf, but that's ok. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE97RV9XY6L6fI4GtQRAtyfAKDITCEngLRA4pL2iUlhstTX60pR8QCfXffQ 0IQz83SoCfT+Cq+W3NXXDII= =4/GC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message