From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 18 14:10:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3386537B718 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f2ILdeI21451; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:39:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:39:39 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Jon-Eirik Pettersen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error message In-Reply-To: <001501c0afec$83229c00$073da8c0@pentium200> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote: > I getting this error message when I using TAR: > "tar : Can't open /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured". You are forgetting the '-f' flag when inputting or outputting. This flag tells tar which file to read from or write to, when (de)constructing the archive. See 'man tar'. Nick Rogness - Sanitation Engineer, or might as well be To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message