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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:51:06 +0000
From:      Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:        freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tar segmentation fault
Message-ID:  <200602220751.07714.ben@spooty.net>
In-Reply-To: <444q2splud.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <200602202339.44245.ben@spooty.net> <200602210724.39754.ben@spooty.net> <444q2splud.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:12, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> writes:

> > me$ pkg_info | grep tar
> > gtar-1.15.1_1       GNU version of the traditional tar archiver

> You're obviously not *using* gnu tar, because you would be getting
> errors on the -l option if you were.

Well, I haven't got round to debugging bsdtar (it compiles without warning 
using 'make' in /usr/src/usr.bin/tar/), but it turns out gtar works fine, 
using -h instead of -L .

Thanks very much to both of you for pointing me towards a solution.

Thanks,
Ben



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