Feature request for pax

Hi,

I use pax to backup my RedHat systems. This is a feature for it - I understand it originates from OpenBSD, so I hope I have sent this request to the
right place.

I use pax to backup the entire system there are some files that are modified during the copy - typically log files and such. I want the files backed up and I don't care if I miss a few lines at the end so pax exiting with a non-zero just because a file was modified during the copy was than helpful. In this case a non-zero exit status only if something really went wrong - like a write error, would be better.

Attached is a patch to pax (which RedHat calls version 3.0 - but I don't know where that came from) that adds a -M option to pax/cpio/tar. The
-M option causes file modification to be treated as a warning, not an
error.

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Russell Stuart

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

• Fred Menger

[demime 0.98d removed an attachment of type text/x-patch which had a name of pax-3.0-modifyWarn.patch] Received on Fri Mar 21 00:28:11 2003