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) _at__at_ -19,13 +19,16 _at__at_ 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? -- John BaldwinReceived on Wed Jun 20 2012 - 11:35:31 UTC
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