From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 14:23:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isua5.iastate.edu (isua5.iastate.edu [129.186.1.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F5137B407 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:23:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (legg@localhost) by isua5.iastate.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA12812 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:23:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:23:46 -0500 (CDT) From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar on 4.3-RELEASE (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG DUH - I am a real anti-nerd today. I wrote to the list, but forgot to state the problem I was having. My sincerest apologies. PROBLEM: Why is this error message appearing? In this instance, tar is only being used to de-arc a file. I don't need anything sent to a device. Is there a reason why it is set up like this? When I use tar as a user (as opposed to root), I get complaints that I don't have permissions to /dev/sa0/. I find this peculiar as I don't have a tape drive on my machine. tar -t (view contents of file), tar -c (create file), tar -x (extract file; they all generate this error. stdout.txt - a script of all standard input/output as I demonstrate this error. ---------------------------------------- As an unrelated topic, I must thank all the people who have helped me so much with my studies of this operating system. I only wish someday that I can gain the level of knowledge where I can help others like me in the future. Timothy D Legg legg@iastate.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message