Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:28:06 -0400 (EDT) From: James Smallacombe <james@pil.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying binaries to new server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0610241424560.72874-100000@richard2.pil.net> In-Reply-To: <20061024181844.GD53901@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 24), James Smallacombe said: > > Here's another issue I just ran into while trying to do just that, using tar: > > > > su-2.05b# tar xpPvfz > > <snip thousands of lines> > > x /usr/lib/libypclnt.so > > x /usr/lib/libalias.a > > x /usr/lib/libalias.so > > x /usr/lib/libarchive.a > > x /usr/lib/libarchive.so.2Bus error: 10 (core dumped) > > > > I take it the core dump occured because I was trying to overwrite a lib that > > was in use by tar, right? Is there a good way around this? > > You can try the -U option, which will unlink existing files before > creating the new version. I just noticed the problem was in creating the tarball, not extracting it....I will try the "-W exclude=libarchive.*" first... thanks James Smallacombe Internet Access for The Delaware james@pil.net Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet Internet Ltd. http://www.pil.net =========================================================================
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