Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:09:06 -0500 From: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist? Message-ID: <200506282309.07587.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <42C218F6.9070802@mykitchentable.net> References: <42C20ADE.8080608@mykitchentable.net> <ef10de9a050628203547a17185@mail.gmail.com> <42C218F6.9070802@mykitchentable.net>
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On Tuesday 28 June 2005 22:43, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On 6/28/2005 8:35 PM Nikolas Britton wrote: > >It looks, i'm not sure, like they're not vaild file names. > > OK, that might be. But then the question is "why does tar try to copy > those files if they are not valid?". I assume tar is reading the > directory structure and finding those file names as I'm not specifying > them directly. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Drew Perhaps the user issuing the 'tar' command does not have read access to these files and directories.
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