From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 5: 4:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from furbie.euronet.nl (furbie.euronet.nl [194.134.32.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858CF14E8D for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 05:04:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beng@furbie.euronet.nl) Received: (from beng@localhost) by furbie.euronet.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA57731; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:04:30 GMT (envelope-from beng) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:04:30 +0200 From: Ben Gras To: Thomas Uhrfelt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: cp Message-ID: <19990830140430.A57685@euronet.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Thomas Uhrfelt on Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:42:37AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All, On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:42:37AM +0200, Thomas Uhrfelt wrote: > A few minutes ago I tried to copy our mail directory over to a new drive > thats mounted under /mail. And the following happens: > > [/mail]# cp -R /var/mail/ /mail > cp: /mail/mo: Bad address > > the file mo seems to be copied correctly, so whats up with this message? I > have no idea what it means. What's the output of ls -al /mail/mo /var/mail/mo ? Perhaps it is a block/character special file that doesn't want to be read/written-to like cp does. Or isn't configured in at all.. =Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message