Re: tar troubles
--- Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:05 pm, Net Llama dropped these nuggets of information: --- Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snips] Hi Lonni tar cvf mail.tar mail Ummm...is 'mail' a file or a directory? If its a standard UNIX mail file, then its, well, a file. tar is for creating archives of multiple files. tar has no effect whatsoever on a single file. Have you tried just viewing the contents of mail.tar with a random text editor, or even less (or more) ? Mail was a directory for kmail. It had the drafts, inbox, outbox, trash, and my custom folders under it. Viewing it with less and vi filled the screen with @'s and ^'s. Same with xedit too. Oh, well. I was hoping. When you created the archive, did you see it add all the files? Is it possible that you used a much newer version of tar to create the archive than you're using to extract it? = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ Step-by-step help:http://netllama.ipfox.com . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: tar troubles
On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:58 pm, Kurt Wall dropped these nuggets of information: Tom Wilson wrote: I asked: What is the output of: $ file mail.tar mail.tar: ASCII text, with no line terminators It's not a tar file, then. Here's the output for a tarball: $ file test.tar test.tar: GNU tar archive Thanks. I appreciate the help. Try $ vi -b mail.tar and see what you can see. Kurt The vi -b mail.tar produced the same results as with plain vi. @'s and ^'s. I beginning to think that last time I did this I bonered it some how. sigh Thanks again. -- Tom Wilson Registered Linux user #199331 Live on your knees in conformity or die on your feet for honesty. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: tar troubles
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:40 pm, Myles Green dropped these nuggets of information: Hi Myles, Sorry it took awhile to get back. No problem with the questions. Answers dispersed throughout. A few questions, if I may. When you tar'd your mail folder what was the command you used? tar cvf mail.tar mail Did you check the file size of the .tar file against the original folder (IIRC, they should be very close to the same)? No I didn't. But I did test it by untarring it after I had it tar up but before I copied it to zip disk. It untared fine then. Did you try unpacking the .tar.bz2 file with 'tar xyvf file.tar.bz2'? Got a y --invalid option Can you see what's in the .tar file using some utility like KDE's Archiver or maybe midnight commander? KArchiver errors out with I can't fork a decompressor. I don't have midnight commander installed. And lastly, have you done this successfully in the past? I've successfully tarred them to backup but I've never had to try to restore them until now. So I guess I haven't. Sorry for all the questions but those are what came to mind. No problem. Thanks for the help. -- Tom Wilson Registered Linux user #199331 Live on your knees in conformity or die on your feet for honesty. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: tar troubles
--- Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:40 pm, Myles Green dropped these nuggets of information: Hi Myles, Sorry it took awhile to get back. No problem with the questions. Answers dispersed throughout. A few questions, if I may. When you tar'd your mail folder what was the command you used? tar cvf mail.tar mail Ummm...is 'mail' a file or a directory? If its a standard UNIX mail file, then its, well, a file. tar is for creating archives of multiple files. tar has no effect whatsoever on a single file. Have you tried just viewing the contents of mail.tar with a random text editor, or even less (or more) ? Can you see what's in the .tar file using some utility like KDE's Archiver or maybe midnight commander? KArchiver errors out with I can't fork a decompressor. I don't have midnight commander installed. Try something like xedit. I strongly suspect that mail.tar = mail . = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ Step-by-step help:http://netllama.ipfox.com . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: tar troubles
On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:05 pm, Net Llama dropped these nuggets of information: --- Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snips] Hi Lonni tar cvf mail.tar mail Ummm...is 'mail' a file or a directory? If its a standard UNIX mail file, then its, well, a file. tar is for creating archives of multiple files. tar has no effect whatsoever on a single file. Have you tried just viewing the contents of mail.tar with a random text editor, or even less (or more) ? Mail was a directory for kmail. It had the drafts, inbox, outbox, trash, and my custom folders under it. Viewing it with less and vi filled the screen with @'s and ^'s. Same with xedit too. [snips] -- Tom Wilson Registered Linux user #199331 Live on your knees in conformity or die on your feet for honesty. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: tar troubles
Tom Wilson wrote: I asked: What is the output of: $ file mail.tar mail.tar: ASCII text, with no line terminators It's not a tar file, then. Here's the output for a tarball: $ file test.tar test.tar: GNU tar archive Thanks. I appreciate the help. Try $ vi -b mail.tar and see what you can see. Kurt -- Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. -- Frederick Crane ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: tar troubles
Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I moved from eDesktop 2.4 to Redhat 7.1 and when backing up and saving personal stuff, I tarred up my mail directory and bzip2 it up on to a zip disk. Now when trying to retrieve my mail directory, it bunzip2's ok but it won't untar. tar xvf mail.tar puts me right back to a prompt with it still listed as mail.tar. No error messages no nothing. Just the mail.tar file staring mockingly at me. Nothing I try with the tar command works. It just always goes back to the prompt. Any ideas of how I can untar this? I hate to lose all those e-mail tips I've received over the years. A few questions, if I may. When you tar'd your mail folder what was the command you used? Did you check the file size of the .tar file against the original folder (IIRC, they should be very close to the same)? Did you try unpacking the .tar.bz2 file with 'tar xyvf file.tar.bz2'? Can you see what's in the .tar file using some utility like KDE's Archiver or maybe midnight commander? And lastly, have you done this successfully in the past? Sorry for all the questions but those are what came to mind. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
