Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:04:30 +0200 From: Ben Gras <ben@euro.net> To: Thomas Uhrfelt <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cp Message-ID: <19990830140430.A57685@euronet.nl> In-Reply-To: <LOBBJNJHKFOGCKJFKEKBCEKPCGAA.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>; from Thomas Uhrfelt on Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:42:37AM %2B0200 References: <LOBBJNJHKFOGCKJFKEKBCEKPCGAA.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
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All, On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:42:37AM +0200, Thomas Uhrfelt wrote: > A few minutes ago I tried to copy our mail directory over to a new drive > thats mounted under /mail. And the following happens: > > [/mail]# cp -R /var/mail/ /mail > cp: /mail/mo: Bad address > > the file mo seems to be copied correctly, so whats up with this message? I > have no idea what it means. What's the output of ls -al /mail/mo /var/mail/mo ? Perhaps it is a block/character special file that doesn't want to be read/written-to like cp does. Or isn't configured in at all.. =Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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