From mi@rtfm.ziplink.net Fri May 29 10:52:59 1998 Received: from aldan.ziplink.net (mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.29.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25103 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@rtfm.ziplink.net) Received: from rtfm.ziplink.net (rtfm [199.232.255.52]) by aldan.ziplink.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA07068 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 17:52:49 GMT (envelope-from mi@rtfm.ziplink.net) Received: (from mi@localhost) by rtfm.ziplink.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id NAA23538; Fri, 29 May 1998 13:52:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199805291752.NAA23538@rtfm.ziplink.net> Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:52:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/dump.conf X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 6785 >Category: bin >Synopsis: place for all the default dump flags >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: suspended >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri May 29 11:00:01 PDT 1998 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: Fri Jul 5 12:30:01 PDT 2002 >Originator: Mikhail Teterin >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 >Organization: Virtual Estates, Inc. >Environment: >Description: When using dump(8) indirectly (such as through Amanda) it is often inconvenient/hard to alter flags like ``h'' on command line. Something like /etc/dump.conf and/or DUMPFLAGS env variable would allow to alter dump's default behaviour without recompilations. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: If this is not "a bad idea which will never make it into FreeBSD", I can try myself in adding this in. If there is something like this in other OSes, please, tell me... >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended State-Changed-By: phk State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 2 02:53:12 PDT 1998 State-Changed-Why: sounds like a good idea. Maybe to avoid an explosion of /etc/foo.conf files we should introduce /etc/defaults.conf or something, which has a section for each program. This would be strongly dependen on a library call to get the values from that file in a systematic way. From: "Cox SMTP central" To: , Cc: Subject: Re: bin/6785: place for all the default dump flags Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 14:24:50 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C2242F.B8C8B7A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Why not use, say, a "dupflags.conf" file instead? ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C2242F.B8C8B7A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Why not use, say, a=20 "dupflags.conf" file instead?

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