Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ListError on Solaris "door" files

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Tony and Robyn Lewis <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:49:31 +1100
> (new to list)
> 
> I'm running something like:
> $ sudo rdiff-backup /etc/ /var/history/etc
> 
> And I get the following:
> ListError sysevent/devfsadm_event_channel/1 
> /etc/sysevent/devfsadm_event_channel/1
> ListError sysevent/devfsadm_event_channel/reg_door 
> /etc/sysevent/devfsadm_event_channel/reg_door
> ListError sysevent/devfsadm_event_channel/piclevent_door 
> /etc/sysevent/piclevent_door
> ListError sysevent/devfsadm_event_channel/sysevent_door 
> /etc/sysevent/sysevent_door
> ListError sysevent/syseventconfd_event_channel/reg_door  
> /etc/sysevent/syseventconfd_event_channel/reg_door
> 
> Looking at the files, they are "door" files.  Neither 
> "--exclude-device-files" nor "--exclude-special-files" excludes them.  I 
> haven't tried expressly excluding the files, but I'd rather not have to.
> 
> Should something --exclude-*-files be expected to handle these?
> 
> I'm using rdiff-backup 1.0.3 on SPARC Solaris 9.

There's no specific option to exclude door files, but a ListError has
the same effect---rdiff-backup will act as if those files don't exist.
(There's no door-specific code in rdiff-backup so it doesn't know they
are special files, only that it can't handle them.)

So anyway, just ignore those ListErrors.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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