From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 23:06:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17247 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:06:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gateway.crc.ricoh.com (gateway.crc.ricoh.com [205.226.66.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA17179 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from star@strawberry.adc.rsv.ricoh.com) Received: by gateway.crc.ricoh.com; id XAA09935; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:04:01 -0700 Received: from strawberry.adc.rsv.ricoh.com(172.30.31.68) by gateway.crc.ricoh.com via smap (4.1) id xma009931; Tue, 6 Oct 98 23:03:12 -0700 Received: (from star@localhost) by strawberry.adc.rsv.ricoh.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00506; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:08:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from star) From: Heather Stern Message-Id: <199810070608.XAA00506@strawberry.adc.rsv.ricoh.com> Subject: tar|rsh/tar also segfaults! To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jimd@mail.starshine.org Reply-To: jimd@mail.starshine.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, it's me again. We tried the tar cvf - . | rsh other "( cd / && tar xpf - )" variation and it segfaults too. What's the deal here? This is a FreeBSD 2.2.6, running from the CD's "fixit" shell. Finally we just extracted the drive from the system and jumpered it for use in the target system. However, I shouldn't have to do that just to xfer files across a network pipe! I do this under Linux all the time (and we know that BSD's TCP stack and networking tools are *supposed* to be better than *theirs*). So, I'm really curious what might be the problem. We also tried to use a PicoBSD "networking" boot diskette. That doesn't work since it apparently doesn't have a full version of cpio or tar --- and the on that's installed on the affected system's root fs is *not* statically linked. I was this close " to getting out a Tom's Root/Boot (rtbt) and trying it's UFS (readonly) support. (But I think I would've had to build a kernel for that and it's late). -- Jim Dennis, Proprietor, Starshine Technical Services (Linux Gazette "Answer Guy") To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message