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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



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