Bug 1255418

Summary: engine-backup - parameters error
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Petr Kubica <pkubica>
Component: ovirt-engine-setupAssignee: Yedidyah Bar David <didi>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Pavel Stehlik <pstehlik>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 3.6.0CC: amureini, bazulay, ecohen, lsurette, rbalakri, Rhev-m-bugs, yeylon, ylavi
Target Milestone: ovirt-4.0.0-alpha   
Target Release: 4.0.0   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Last Closed: 2015-11-16 06:41:53 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Petr Kubica 2015-08-20 14:13:06 UTC 
Description of problem:
When someone tried to run engine-backup without necessary parameters lead to many error in terminal.

[root@pk-rh35 ~]# engine-backup --mode=backup
FATAL: --file is missing
readlink: missing operand
Try `readlink --help' for more information.
/usr/bin/engine-backup: line 1398: : No such file or directory
Notifying engine
/usr/bin/engine-backup: line 1465: : No such file or directory
/usr/bin/engine-backup: line 1398: : No such file or directory
readlink: missing operand
Try `readlink --help' for more information.
/usr/bin/engine-backup: line 1398: : No such file or directory
Notifying engine
/usr/bin/engine-backup: line 1465: : No such file or directory
/usr/bin/engine-backup: line 1398: : No such file or directory
readlink: missing operand
Try `readlink --help' for more information.
/usr/bin/engine-backup: line 1398: : No such file or directory
Notifying engine
/usr/bin/engine-backup: line 1465: : No such file or directory
/usr/bin/engine-backup: line 1398: : No such file or directory
readlink: missing operand
.... (infinity repeated) ....

After specify all necessary parameters everything works

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhevm-3.6.0-0.11.master.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have an engine 
2. command "engine-backup --mode=backup" (without --scope, --file, --log)

Expected results:
Warning about missing necessary parameters
Comment 1 Yedidyah Bar David 2015-11-16 06:41:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1240923 ***