This bug is a serious problem for me -- the backup script on my servers suddenly started spitting out ~6MB of "file is unchanged; not dumped" messages to the logs.
That message should be printed only if -v is selected. Please apply the included patch, taken from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-03/msg00001.html Index: src/create.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/tar/tar/src/create.c,v retrieving revision 1.92 diff -p -u -r1.92 create.c --- src/create.c 15 Feb 2005 15:24:35 -0000 1.92 +++ src/create.c 2 Mar 2005 10:09:21 -0000 @@ -1397,7 +1397,7 @@ dump_file0 (struct tar_stat_info *st, ch && OLDER_STAT_TIME (st->stat, m) && (!after_date_option || OLDER_STAT_TIME (st->stat, c))) { - if (!incremental_option) + if (!incremental_option && verbose_option) WARN ((0, 0, _("%s: file is unchanged; not dumped"), quotearg_colon (p))); return; -- Ciao, Flavio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
