From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 11:52:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zcars04f.ca.nortel.com (zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com [47.129.242.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC50737B491 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from zcard015.ca.nortel.com by zcars04f.ca.nortel.com; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:36:28 -0500 Received: by zcard015.ca.nortel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <1MM323JT>; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:36:29 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Matthew Koivisto" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: I must be retarted Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:36:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C092CF.991A7F30" X-Orig: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C092CF.991A7F30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hehehe, oops my bad, I knew it was something dumb like that, thnx every1 -----Original Message----- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:kstewart@urx.com] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:33 PM To: Koivisto, Matthew [WDLN2:AN33:EXCH] Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: I must be retarted > Matthew Koivisto wrote: > > When tryin to open a tar file It's sayin can't open device. What's > with this? Am I just retarted? > > # tar -x foo.tgz > > tar: can't open /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured You didn't use the "f" option to specify a file and it tried to use a tape drive, which is the default. If you want to extract, you need to use "zxf". The file name follows the "f" option, and you have to decompress it, which is the "z" option. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ ------_=_NextPart_001_01C092CF.991A7F30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: I must be retarted

Hehehe, oops my bad, I knew it was something dumb = like that, thnx every1

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Kent Stewart [mailto:kstewart@urx.com]
Sent:   Friday, February 09, 2001 2:33 = PM
To:     Koivisto, Matthew = [WDLN2:AN33:EXCH]
Cc:     = 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'
Subject:        = Re: I must be retarted



> Matthew Koivisto wrote:
>
> When tryin to open a tar file It's sayin can't = open device. What's
> with this? Am I just retarted?
>
> # tar -x foo.tgz
>
> tar: can't open /dev/rsa0 : Device not = configured

You didn't use the "f" option to specify a = file and it tried to use a
tape drive, which is the default. If you want to = extract, you need to
use "zxf". The file name follows the = "f" option, and you have to
decompress it, which is the "z" = option.

Kent

--
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com
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