From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 03:43:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A5816A41C for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:43:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.182.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 738AB43D1F for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:43:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.69]) by relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55BA36426F; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.164]) by filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.69]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04082-08-7; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (67-137-46-191.dsl2.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [67.137.46.191]) by relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D21F03641BD; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:43:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (bigdaddy.mykitchentable.net [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD08F3BF3AB; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42C218F6.9070802@mykitchentable.net> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:43:50 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <42C20ADE.8080608@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:43:50 -0000 On 6/28/2005 8:35 PM Nikolas Britton wrote: >It looks, i'm not sure, like they're not vaild file names. > OK, that might be. But then the question is "why does tar try to copy those files if they are not valid?". I assume tar is reading the directory structure and finding those file names as I'm not specifying them directly. Any ideas? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com