Re: [webmin-l] [BUG?] remote backup files

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 7/Jul/2006 12:15 Pat Erler wrote ..
> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:40:30 +0200, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 7/Jul/2006 11:02 Pat Erler wrote ..
> >> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:21:26 +0200, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 7/Jul/2006 12:05 Pat Erler wrote ..
> >> >> hi
> >> >> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:07:58 +0200, Roger B.A. Klorese
> >> >> <ro...@qu...> wrote:
> >> >> >> in backup filesystem, when i choose remote backup via ssh i get
> >> this
> >> >> >> error:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> bash: line 1: /usr/libexec/rmt: No such file or directory
> >> >> >> what is missing here?
> >> where does the backup client's tar command it's information about rmt?
> >
> > As far as I know, it is built into the  tar program.
> >
> >> > One work-around would be to run
> >> >
> >> > ln -s /etc/rmt /usr/libexec/rmt
> i'm a bit uncomfortable with this..
> 
> > It looks to me like a problem in tar.
> i'm not really sure what to make out of this usenet postings:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?client=opera&rls=en&q=%2Fusr%2Flibexec%2Frmt%20debian%20tar&sourceid=opera&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg
> 
> but i think it would be more correct to handle the problem when calling
> tar in webmin:
> 
> --rmt-command=cmd
> Notifies tar that it should use cmd instead of the default  
> /usr/libexec/rmt (see Remote Tape Server).
> 
> from:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Option-Summary.html
> 
> in case of debian 3.1 /etc/rmt or /usr/sbin/rmt. in 3.0 it's the same,
> i  
> just checked an ancient server of mine.
> 
> what do you think? have other distributions maybe the same problem maybe?

I tried this out myself just now, as it seems that only Debian uses the wrong
path. It really looks like a bug in the tar command (or at least Debian's package
of it).

I will add an option to Webmin in the next release for setting the --rmt-command
flag though.

 - Jamie