On 19-Feb-2003 at 16:16:44 Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Jason Dale wrote: >> 1) When I do a man page on 'tar', the screen comes up all garbled. I >> believe >> this was discussed on the list a while back, but I can't seem to >> find those mails >> that will shed some insight on why this is happening. Does this have >> something to >> do with the $TERM variable? >> >> 2) I am using 'tar' to create a backup of a directory structure to >> another Linux server >> on the same LAN. Here is a screen dump: >> >> # tar -cvzf -f 209.212.123.157:/usr/backups /tmp/testdir >> >> Gives this output >> >> tar: 209.212.123.157\:/usr/backups: Cannot stat: No such file or >> directory > I am unaware that tar will send a file to another machine as your > are trying to do. This can be done using rsh or probably ssh but not > directly. Also tar files for sanity sake should end in a .tar > extension. > Yes it will. There is also the '--rsh-command' option which can be used to specify ssh etc. In the example above you have 'cvzf -f 209.' - note you have the 'f' option twice :-) John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@plymouth.ac.uk PGP key available from public key servers -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
