From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 11:33:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from level3.dynacom.net (level3.dynacom.net [206.107.213.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCA4D37B4EC for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:33:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1827 invoked by uid 0); 9 Feb 2001 19:33:16 -0000 Received: from dsl1-160.dynacom.net (HELO urx.com) (206.159.132.160) by mail.urx.com with SMTP; 9 Feb 2001 19:33:16 -0000 Message-ID: <3A8445FB.965C2046@urx.com> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 11:33:15 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Koivisto Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: I must be retarted References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Matthew Koivisto wrote: > > When tryin to open a tar file It's sayin can't open device. What's > with this? Am I just retarted? > > # tar -x foo.tgz > > tar: can't open /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured You didn't use the "f" option to specify a file and it tried to use a tape drive, which is the default. If you want to extract, you need to use "zxf". The file name follows the "f" option, and you have to decompress it, which is the "z" option. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message