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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!wilbur.nas.nasa.gov!tweten From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) Subject: Re: /dev/rmt8: Bad Filfile descriptor ???? References: <1993Mar24.064408.902@pyrian.com> <C4F7G5.EyD@acsu.buffalo.edu> Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator) Organization: NAS Systems Division, NASA Ames Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 20:35:52 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar25.203552.18378@nas.nasa.gov> Lines: 17 In article <C4F7G5.EyD@acsu.buffalo.edu> ferrick@acsu.buffalo.edu (Patrick K. Ferrick) writes: > >I get > >tar: can't open /dev/rmt8: bad file descriptor > >when I try to run tar. (386bsd 0.1, Julians' SCSI drivers, otherwise generic) That's because you forgot to use the "-f /dev/rst0" option on tar (or something like that). Tar used its default archive file name, /dev/rmt8, which you don't have. If you want to change the default, you can edit a CFLAG in tar's Makefile and rebuild it. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Tweten tweten@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center, M/S 258-5 (415) 604-4416 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 FAX: (415) 604-4377