On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:35:27AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > The daily periodic e-mails for my boxes always include useless output from > dump -W. I think the daily e-mail should only do that if the sysadmin is > actually using dump. The patch below skips the dump reporting it > /etc/dumpdates doesn't exist or exists and is an empty file (the latter is > what you get out-of-the-box): > > Index: 400.status-disks > =================================================================== > --- 400.status-disks (revision 237227) > +++ 400.status-disks (working copy) > @@ -19,13 +19,16 @@ case "$daily_status_disks_enable" in > df $daily_status_disks_df_flags && rc=1 || rc=3 > > # display which filesystems need backing up > - if ! [ -f /etc/fstab ]; then > - export PATH_FSTAB=/dev/null > + if [ -s /etc/dumpdates ]; then > + if ! [ -f /etc/fstab ]; then > + export PATH_FSTAB=/dev/null > + fi > + > + echo "" > + dump W || rc=3 > fi > + ;; > > - echo "" > - dump W || rc=3;; > - > *) rc=0;; > esac > > Thoughts?
This seems sensible to me. -- Brooks
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