Subject: Re: dump and rmt
To: Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 07/17/1996 21:50:37
Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu> writes:
>
> I was trying to dump a filesystem to a remote tape and ran into an
> error complaining about being unable to execute /etc/rmt. Of course,
> this doesn't exist, but seems to come from that path being specified
> in .../src/sbin/dump/pathnames.h. The following patch should fix
> that.
If your system is properly installed, there will be a link from
/etc/rmt to /usr/sbin/rmt. We *can't* change the path, because it's
actually part of the protocol, and doing so would break compatibility
with other systems.