yls177 <yls177@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> stty: : Not a typewriter
> fbackup(1004): session begins on Sat Jul 10 23:46:27 2004
> fbackup(3203): volume 1 has been used 1 time(s)
> fbackup(3024): writing volume 1 to the output file /dev/rmt/mydevice
> fbackup(1102): WARNING: unable to stat file
> /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client2569
> fbackup(1102): WARNING: unable to stat file
> /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client2691
> fbackup(1102): WARNING: unable to stat file
> /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client2924
> fbackup(1102): WARNING: unable to stat file
> /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client3021
> fbackup(1102): WARNING: unable to stat file
> /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client3212
> fbackup(1102): WARNING: unable to stat file
> /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client3290
> fbackup(1102): WARNING: unable to stat file
> /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client3365
> fbackup(3005): WARNING: file number 93507 was NOT backed up
> fbackup(3005): WARNING: file number 93508 was NOT backed up
> fbackup(3005): WARNING: file number 93510 was NOT backed up
> fbackup(3005): WARNING: file number 93512 was NOT backed up
> fbackup(3005): WARNING: file number 93513 was NOT backed up
> fbackup(3005): WARNING: file number 93514 was NOT backed up
> fbackup(3005): WARNING: file number 93515 was NOT backed up
> fbackup(1030): warnings encountered during backup
> fbackup(3055): total file blocks read for backup: 77878219
> fbackup(3056): total blocks written to output file /dev/rmt/mydevice:
> 78224868
> Not a terminal
> stty: : Not a typewriter
> Not a terminal
> stty: : Not a typewriter
>
> my graphfile is the same as the above except that i have "e /".
> however, what does the above warning indicates?

The "fbackup(1102): WARNING: unable to stat file" *warning* (not
error) means that fbackup could not do a stat(2) system call on the
named 'file' (probably a socket in this case). That normally means that
the 'file' was present when fbackup collected the list of files to be
backed up, but when it actually gets to backing up the file, it is no
longer there. The "fbackup(3005): WARNING: file number ..... was NOT
backed up" *warning* just says that the file was not backed up (because
it could not be stat(2)-ed/found.

Perhaps others can comment on what the *specific* files/directory,
i.e. /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client*, are/is used for.

The "stty: : Not a typewriter" and "Not a terminal" errors are not
directly related to fbackup. Apparently your backup script tries some
terminal operations (perhaps by an implicitly referenced .profile file),
and since the script runs from cron(1M), there is no terminal
(association).