Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:18:44 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: James Smallacombe <james@pil.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying binaries to new server Message-ID: <20061024181844.GD53901@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0610241411130.55341-100000@richard2.pil.net> References: <453E36F5.70102@mikestammer.com> <Pine.BSF.4.44.0610241411130.55341-100000@richard2.pil.net>
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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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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