When using dump(8) indirectly (such as through Amanda) it is often inconvenient/hard to alter flags like ``h'' on command line. Something like /etc/dump.conf and/or DUMPFLAGS env variable would allow to alter dump's default behaviour without recompilations. Fix: If this is not "a bad idea which will never make it into FreeBSD", I can try myself in adding this in. If there is something like this in other OSes, please, tell me...
State Changed From-To: open->suspended sounds like a good idea. Maybe to avoid an explosion of /etc/foo.conf files we should introduce /etc/defaults.conf or something, which has a section for each program. This would be strongly dependen on a library call to get the values from that file in a systematic way.
Why not use, say, a "dupflags.conf" file instead?
Reassigning bug to mi@ for input/potential commit.
batch change: For bugs that match the following - Status Is In progress AND - Untouched since 2018-01-01. AND - Affects Base System OR Documentation DO: Reset to open status. Note: I did a quick pass but if you are getting this email it might be worthwhile to double check to see if this bug ought to be closed.
^Triage: committer's bit was taken in for safekeeping.