From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 3:21:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe50.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.236.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D0437B71E for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:21:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from default013@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:21:07 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [24.14.93.185] Reply-To: "default013" From: "default013" To: Subject: question about tarfiles Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 05:21:05 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Mar 2001 11:21:07.0231 (UTC) FILETIME=[306E52F0:01C0B2C2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, A couple of days ago, someone broke into one of our systems at work, leaving a bunch of very volitile scripts around. I isolated the scripts and tarred them up so that I could later take a look at them and see exactly what they were for. I was downloading them to another computer the to look at the other day, and had mis-typed in this command: tar cvfg tarfile.tar.gz tarfilecd ad* I had fallen asleep while downloading the scripts, and was planning to make a new tarfile when I finished, but I had accidentally typed 'g' instead of 'z' in the options. Then I woke up later, had forgotten that I had entered that and was planning to cd to a directory... My best guess, is that this ran an incremental backup of all files in any directory named ad. The output was like this: /home/user/subdirectory/file FILE IS NEW This also created the tarfile named tarfile.tar.gz. Could anyone tell me what this did? I'm a little afraid I may have messed something up... Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message