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From: Curt Finch <curt@pnk.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: simple question about tar
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:35:58 -0600
Organization: Phoenix Net-Tek LLC
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Bill Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I have an exteamly simple question about taring files on freeBSD. How
> can I tar everything within a directory, including files subdirectories,
> files within subdirectories, etc.
> 
> With bsdi it's simply tar -cvf /public_html, but I am getting "can't
> open directory" errors with the same command in freebsd.
> 
> Thanks, and appologies for the level of this question.
> Bill Wilson
> atijapan@gol.com

oughta work
sounds like permissions problems on some of the subdirs

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