[linux-target-packaging] Bug#858459: targetcli-fb: backup files not written unless dir exists

[Christian Seiler]

Control: retitle -1 targetcli-fb: backup files not written unless dir exists
Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 + confirmed upstream

On 03/22/2017 04:21 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Package: targetcli-fb
> Version: 2.1.43-1
> 
> targetcli claims to write backups on exit (using the default
> configuration), but it doesn't:
> 
> :
> /> exit
> Info: Global pref auto_save_on_exit=true
> Info: Last 10 configs saved in /etc/rtslib-fb-target/backup.
> Info: Configuration saved to /etc/rtslib-fb-target/saveconfig.json
> root at nasl003b:~# ls -al /etc/rtslib-fb-target
> total 32
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Mar 22 16:17 .
> drwxr-xr-x 101 root root 12288 Mar 20 14:28 ..
> -rw-------   1 root root 14323 Mar 22 16:17 saveconfig.json

Yes, indeed, that's unfortunately true. The problem here is that
it will only store backups if the backup directory exists. (You
can manually create that directory as a workaround at the
moment.)

Increasing bug severity as the command line message is very, very
misleading and could lull users into a false sense of security.

Thanks for reporting this!

Regards,
Christian