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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Post-installation Housekeeping Error Date: 14 Jul 1996 10:41:41 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4sait5$sf@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4s9o34$bql@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4s9o34$bql@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Ngocquynh <ngocquynh@aol.com> wrote: >Pleae help me! I was following the instructions on page 59 of the >installing and >running BSD manual (by Greg Lehey) to create a symbolic link /var to point >to /usr/var. > >When I issued the command > >tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ), > >I got the error message "tar: unknown option. Use `tar --help' for a >complete >list of options." What's the deal here? I typed it exaclty as the manual >says! It looks perfectly all right to me (assuming you didn't type the comma at the end - but even if you had, you would have got an error from the shell, not tar). All I can suggest is that you must have made a mistake somewhere - try again! Perhaps it would be a good idea to break it down into something simpler:- cd /some/where tar cf var.tar /var cd /usr/var tar xf /some/where/var.tar -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/