From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 23 20:23:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10880 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.datacraft-asia.com (mail.datacraft-asia.com [152.102.112.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10843; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:23:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ford.leu@datacraft-asia.com) Received: from dsi.datacraft-asia.com ([152.102.112.188]) by mail.datacraft-asia.com (Post.Office MTA v3.0 release 0122 ID# 0-34116U100L2S100) with SMTP id AAA584; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:28:59 +0800 Received: by dsi.datacraft-asia.com with VINES-ISMTP; Wed, 24 Jun 98 11:25:58 +0800 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 98 11:25:10 TPE Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) To: , Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Tim Vanderhoek" From: "Ford Leu" Reply-To: Subject: How to stop the mail from freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Incognito-SN: 971 X-Incognito-Version: 4.11.23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As title ------------- Original Text From: "Mike Smith" , on 1998/6/24 09:55 AM: > tar: /dev/sd0s3: minor number too large; not dumped > > etc ... > > I think the tar *really should* be upgraded in /usr/bin ! Why? > Something like that is really ugly, a unix that can't backup > it's own files ... something like that I only know from M$ ... This is a failing of the tar format; a newer tar won't help you. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message