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
Tom Wilson 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 ma
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 unta
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:25 pm, Kurt Wall dropped these
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Hi Kurt,
Sorry it took awhile to get back. Output is below.
> What is the output of:
>
> $ file mail.tar
mail.tar: ASCII text, with no line terminators
> $ ls -l mail.tar
-rw-rw-r--1 tom to
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:40 pm, Myles Green dropped these
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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?
--- 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. W
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 cre
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
--- 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 s
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:
On Friday 07 September 2001 09:36 am, Net Llama dropped these nuggets
of information:
[snippage]
>
> 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
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