From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 31 14:46:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 14:46:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (ftp.golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0462E37B400 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:46:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AH9370.63.d1acf55c) with ESMTP id ufmsaaaa for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:54:47 +1100 Message-ID: <3A4FB779.F8DFF2C5@quake.com.au> Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 09:47:21 +1100 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TAR problems References: <3A4FB2D8.BC09FA7A@mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charlie Root wrote: > > I'm running Freebsd 4.1.1-Release and having some problems with creating > tar files. I can untar files just fine, but when i try to create a tar > file with tar-c i always get: > > tar: can't open /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured > > I have never seen this problem before, but since I've installed my > current version of freebsd i've been getting this error every time. How > can i fix this? You are supposed to use tar -cf filename otherwise it tries to tar to the default device... which I guess for you is /dev/rsa0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message