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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: /dev/rmt8: Bad Filfile descriptor ???? Date: 25 Mar 1993 15:29:41 -0600 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1ot885INNr4b@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <1993Mar24.064408.902@pyrian.com> <C4F7G5.EyD@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1993Mar25.203552.18378@nas.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <1993Mar25.203552.18378@nas.nasa.gov> tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes: }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 }> }>when I try to run tar. (386bsd 0.1, Julians' SCSI drivers, otherwise generic) } }That's because you forgot to use the "-f /dev/rst0" option on tar (or }something like that). Tar used its default archive file name, }/dev/rmt8, which you don't have. If you want to change the default, you }can edit a CFLAG in tar's Makefile and rebuild it. If you were really lazy, couldn't you just 'ln /dev/rst0 /dev/rmt8'? -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX