On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:07:10AM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> * Jon LaBadie <j...@jgcomp.com> [20190613 05:05]:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 04:28:50PM +0200, C. Scheeder wrote:
> > > Errm
> > > sorry to interup this all,
> > > but isn't the option
> > > "exclude list <filename>"
> > > or
> > > "exclude file <filename>"
> > > man amand.conf dosn't know the option "exclude" without being folowed by
> > > the
> > > word "file" or "list".
> > >
> > In amanda.conf(5) it shows:
> >
> > exclude [list|file] ...
> >
> > The square brackets typicaly surround optional arguments.
> > Indeed, the next line shows:
> >
> > Default: file. ...
> >
> > While I would never recommend it, the file/list argument can
> > be omitted.
>
> I have done that quite often in the past without an itch.
> For example, a disklist.conf entry for a DLE, I exclude everything below
> path{1,2,3,4} but not the subdirs themselves:
>
> client_hostname /some/dle {
> app-amgtar-span
> estimate server
> index no
> exclude append "./path1/*"
> exclude append "./path2/*"
> exclude append "./path3/*"
> exclude append "./path4/*"
> }
>
Its not that I question whether it will work as advertised.
I just don't trust myself to remember which the default is.
Nor to I want a future maintainer of my configuration to
wonder what that "exclude without file/list" is all about.
Jon
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