Re: 2 bugs from Billy on hdup

[On 22 Mar, @ 14:57, Billy wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] 2 bugs from Bi ..."]
> [On 21 Mar, @ 23:29, Billy wrote in "[hdup-user] 2 bugs from Billy  ..."]
> > Well, so far, I had a few problems here.  I narrowed it down to some 
> > bugs in the code for one, and I'm not sure about the other.
> > 
> > First, when I used the "exclude =" line in the global section, I needed 
> > to empty that in some of my host sections.  But I found out the hard way 
> > that this causes the backup to miss a lot of files!
> 
> well, it does say that in the manual page. Everything you say in the 
> global section is inherited by the other hosts. But I'm not sure
> the 'exclude =' works as intended. Which could explain the crazyness
> of myhost2... :(

added some code to make this more sane (boy, I really should rewrite
hdup...), but this now sets the var to NULL. Next thing that happens
is that all the vars that are NULL, but have been defined in the
[global] section, override these NULLs

So having this:
[global]
exclude = bla

[host]
exclude = 

will surely lead to 'exlude = bla' for host. So if you really don't
want that, don't specify those in the global section.

Right now I can test for this, to hdup can emit a warning that this
doen't do what you might think it does :)

grtz Miek