From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 11: 2: 2 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 11:02:00 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.cray.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED8037B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:01:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01199; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:01:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id LAA17933; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:01:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:01:58 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: "Jack Juil Harris, Jr." Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Tar ? Dev unconfigured? Message-ID: <20001209110158.A17924@athena.sea.tera.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: ; from Jack Juil Harris, Jr. on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:46:37PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:46:37PM -0600, Jack Juil Harris, Jr. wrote: > I am trying to un-tar a file. > > # tar -x neomail-1.20.tar.gz > tar: can't open /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured > > What's up with this? > What do I do to make it work? With `tar -x' by itself tar defaults to looking at the hard drive rather than the neomail tarball. Try: # tar -xzvf neomail-1.20.tar.gz instead. The -z handles the gzip *.gz un-compression, and the -f point tar at the tarball (file). gary kline To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message