Re: Bug in fsdump module...

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

jam...@te... wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I found a bug in the fsdump module on RH 7.3 (it could have been in other
> places).  If you added
> a new backup or changed an existing one such that instead of using file or
> tape to backup to you instead
> choose to backup to host., as soon as you saved your changes the following
> would appear:
> 
>      HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/0.01 Date: Fri, 21
> Jun 2002
>           19:04:52 GMT Content-type: text/html Connection: close
>      Error - Perl execution failed
>      Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at
> redhat-linux-lib.pl line 255.
> 
> Note line number is different than the original error as I added some debug
> code to figure out what was
> going on.  The config I created that was causing this problem was as
> follows:


I had a look at this, and the solution was a bit simpler - in line 431, the @

in the string should have been \@ so that perl didn't think it was really an
array. The perl error wasn't very helpful though ..

Anyway, an update has been posted on http://www.webmin.com/updates.html for
anyone else having the problem.

  - Jamie