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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!pacbell.com!unet!blunt!dsilvia From: dsilvia@blunt.net.com (Dave Silvia) Subject: Re: /dev/rmt8: Bad Filfile descriptor ???? Message-ID: <1993Mar25.144116.2849@unet.net.com> Sender: news@unet.net.com Nntp-Posting-Host: blunt Organization: Network Equipment Technologies References: <1993Mar24.064408.902@pyrian.com> <C4F7G5.EyD@acsu.buffalo.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 14:41:16 GMT Lines: 23 In article <C4F7G5.EyD@acsu.buffalo.edu> ferrick@acsu.buffalo.edu (Patrick K. Ferrick) writes: > >I get > >tar: can't open /dev/rmt8: bad file descriptor > Not having an example of how you invoked tar, I can only guess that you did not use the -f switch to specify your device driver file (/dev/[r|nr]st[0-?]). If you do not specify a device, /dev/rmt8 is the default (and you probably don't have that!:). E.G.: tar -xvf /dev/rst0 to extract the tape archive on the tape in st0, OR: tar -cvf /dev/rst0 /usr/mine to create a tape archive of /usr/mine on the tape in st0. [ why the 'v'? 'verbose', I like to see what's happening!;^} ] Dave S.