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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:33:53 -0400 From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, ray-gmail@...rabbit.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: New thread RDSL, post-2.6.20 kernels and amanda (tar) miss-fires On Thursday 15 March 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: [...] >with "/bin/tar -f - >/tmp/test/", you ask bash to open the file > "/tmp/test/" for write, then start tar and pass this file as its > stdout. Obviously this is wrong. I think that what you're trying to do > is send extracted files to /tmp/test, which is what '-C' is for. Also, > you need to specify a command for tar. You didn't. I bet if you do the > following, it will work : > >[root@...ote data]# dd if=00010.coyote._lib.1 bs=32k skip=1 | > /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/tar -C /tmp/test/ -xf - > >Now, Gene, this is becoming totally off-topic right here. My apologies, I've been corrected, thanks for your patience. And I'll see if I can get that text in the amanda file headers amended too. >Regards, >Willy -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. -- H.W. Longfellow - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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