[wplug-bsd] Verification of a dump archive?

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Fri Dec 16 15:14:17 EST 2005


Larry Daberko <larry at daberko.com> wrote:

> Bill Moran wrote:
> >>
> >>Is there a way to skip the
> >>      set owner/mode for '.'? [yn]
> >>question at the end of the restore?  I'm tying to set up a shell script 
> >>to verify archives.
> > 
> > 
> > The man page for my 5.4 systems says that -y will automatically answer
> > this for you.  I don't remember for sure if this option translates to
> > other versions.
> > 
> I have 5.3.  The -y only autoanswers error prompts, if any.  It doesn't 
> answer the set mode question.  I've tried that already :-(
> 
> I was wondering if something else could handle that part?  Expect or 
> similar?

expect should work, although I have little experience with it.

You may be able to use yes(1) to bypass it.  Perhaps
yes | restore <options>
or something similar.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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