From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Oct 17 21:55:48 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E3837B401
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 21:55:45 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001)
	id 539EC4B718F; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:55:39 -0500 (CDT)
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:55:39 -0500
From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
To: "Alex N. Toushek" <toushek@canadiangeneral.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: TAR/RSH support
Message-ID: <20011017235536.B76673@northernbrewer.com>
Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>,
	"Alex N. Toushek" <toushek@canadiangeneral.com>,
	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
References: <9828F86D65D96348AFE58F3C972393BA01A438@lemonjello.cangen.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
In-Reply-To: <9828F86D65D96348AFE58F3C972393BA01A438@lemonjello.cangen.net>; from toushek@canadiangeneral.com on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:05:13PM -0400
Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Alex N. Toushek (toushek@canadiangeneral.com) wrote:

> I am trying to be cheap and use 1 tape drive for 3 servers. 1 is a
> redhat box , and the other 2 are freebsd. One of the freebsd boxes has
> the tape drive. When I go from the redhat box to the freebsd box with
> the tape drive it works, but when I try to go between 2 freebsd boxes
> with this command I get this:
> 
> su-2.05# tar -cvf root@satan:/dev/sa0 --rsh-command=/usr/bin/ssh /
>  tar: unrecognized option `--rsh-command=/usr/bin/ssh'
>  tar: Unknown option.  Use 'tar --help' for a complete list of options.

Did you try setting the TAR_RSH environment variable on the FreeBSD box
you are trying to back up?

-- 
Christopher Farley
www.northernbrewer.com

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message