Re: [OT] Re: New thread RDSL, post-2.6.20 kernels and amanda (tar) miss-fires

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 15 March 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:

[...]

>with "/bin/tar -f - >/tmp/test/", you ask bash to open the file
> "/tmp/test/" for write, then start tar and pass this file as its
> stdout. Obviously this is wrong. I think that what you're trying to do
> is send extracted files to /tmp/test, which is what '-C' is for. Also,
> you need to specify a command for tar. You didn't. I bet if you do the
> following, it will work :
>
>[root@coyote data]# dd if=00010.coyote._lib.1 bs=32k skip=1 |
>    /bin/gzip -dc |  /bin/tar -C /tmp/test/ -xf -
>
>Now, Gene, this is becoming totally off-topic right here.

My apologies, I've been corrected, thanks for your patience.  And I'll see 
if I can get that text in the amanda file headers amended too.

>Regards,
>Willy



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