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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!zib-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news.dfn.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!terra.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hotb.RoBIN.de!flinx.RoBIN.de!alvman.RoBIN.de!usenet From: ah@alvman.robin.de (Andreas Haakh) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: tar to remote devices Date: 15 Feb 1995 09:25:51 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3hshav$ao9@alvman.RoBIN.de> References: <WCP.95Feb13154951@lpds.lpds.com> <LOWELL.95Feb14103625@quern.epilogue.com> Reply-To: ah@alvman.robin.de (Andreas Haakh) NNTP-Posting-Host: barney.robin.de X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.02 In <LOWELL.95Feb14103625@quern.epilogue.com>, lowell@epilogue.com (Lowell Gilbert) writes: >In article <WCP.95Feb13154951@lpds.lpds.com> >wcp@lpds.sublink.org (Walter C. Pelissero) writes: > On my FreeBSD 2.0 I'm trying to make remote backup with tar but > without success. It seems that the child rsh dumps a core but I can't > say it for sure. Dump, instead, works fine but I would like to make > compressed backups and dump doesn't support them. > > Any idea? > >Several. I hit this also, and although I don't have an answer, I >apparently did a bit more investigation. > >Rsh is not at fault; I replaced rsh with a shell script that dumped >the call to rsh (including parameters) to a log file. Using this, I >showed that rsh was never getting called. I recompiled tar, since its >sources didn't seem to have changed since the one released with >FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, but that failed with the same symptoms. An >executable copied directly from one of my coworkers' 1.1.5.1 machines >works flawlessly. So my immediate problem (backing up the machine) is >solved, but I'd still like to be able to compile things myself. > When I first used tar to do remote backups I encountered a similar problem which was solved when I created the following symbolic link /etc/rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt Hope this solves the problem... Andreas -- Andreas Haakh * In den Wingerten 23 * 64291 Darmstadt * +49 6150-7287