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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.238.120.21!jump.net!news From: Curt Finch <curt@pnk.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: simple question about tar Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:35:58 -0600 Organization: Phoenix Net-Tek LLC Lines: 22 Message-ID: <330CFBFE.446B9B3D@pnk.com> References: <330BCCCA.2A16@gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pnk.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) To: atijapan@gol.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35907 Bill Wilson wrote: > > Hello. > > I have an exteamly simple question about taring files on freeBSD. How > can I tar everything within a directory, including files subdirectories, > files within subdirectories, etc. > > With bsdi it's simply tar -cvf /public_html, but I am getting "can't > open directory" errors with the same command in freebsd. > > Thanks, and appologies for the level of this question. > Bill Wilson > atijapan@gol.com oughta work sounds like permissions problems on some of the subdirs -- _______________________________________________________________________ | Curt Finch Phoenix Net-Tek LLC curt@pnk.com 512-795-0709 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------