Re: [Dump-users] DUMP: cannot rewrite /etc: Is a directory:

[Stelian P. <ste...@fr...>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:21:43PM +1100, Adrian Plummer wrote:

> Any idea what "cannot rewrite /etc: Is a directory" means?

This message is issued when dump tries to update the 'dumpdates'
file (normally on /etc/dumpdates or /var/lib/dumpdates I believe
for a Debian system). The location of this file is hardcoded
in the dump binary, so it's extremly strange that it has been
set to '/etc'.

Did you compile it yourself ? In this case, it's possible that
you gave an incorrect parameter to ./configure.

Otherwise, please report the version of dump, where did you get
the binary, the exact command line you are using (the command
line Amanda uses to invoke dump...).

Stelian.
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