From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 7:49:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rmx01.mail.com (rmx01.mail.com [165.251.32.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F16B37B7DB for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:49:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from big-sky@altavista.net) Received: from weba2.iname.net (weba2.iname.net [165.251.4.12]) by rmx01.mail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26676; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:48:39 -0400 (EDT) From: big-sky@altavista.net Received: (from root@localhost) by weba2.iname.net (8.9.1a/8.9.2.Alpha2) id KAA26735; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:48:39 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <000421104839CJ.28920@weba2.iname.net> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:48:39 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: Text/Plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ben Smithurst Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar error question Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That was the problem... I wanted to extract the contents of the tar file and didn't understand the meaning for the f flag in the man page. Thanks for the reply. ---- you wrote: > big-sky@altavista.net wrote: > > > Trying to tar -x ip-fil3.3.12.tar and I get an error: > > > > tar: can't open /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured > > > > I looked in my /dev and found a rsa0 > > > > So how do I configure it? > > You'll need to build support for it into the kernel, and possibly run > MAKEDEV again (just in case). > > But, are you really trying to access the tape drive (which is > what the rsa0 device is) or are you trying to extract a file on a > filesystem called ip-fil3.3.12.tar? If the latter, you want `tar -xf > ip-fil3.3.12.tar'. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message