Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 18:04:53 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: "Jack Juil Harris, Jr." <me@jharris.com>, FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Tar ? Dev unconfigured? Message-ID: <20001209180453.B96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20001209110158.A17924@athena.sea.tera.com>; from kline@tera.com on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:01:58AM -0800 References: <NDBBKLDJKLFFBFKELEAKMENDCHAA.me@jharris.com> <20001209110158.A17924@athena.sea.tera.com>
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On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:01:58AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > 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. tar(1) defaults to looking at the _tape_ drive, /dev/rsa0. > 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). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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