On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 14:28 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Robert wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Robert wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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there was no reason for the -C. Taking it out got things working. One question I have is that every so often the -v is showing things like the following:
tar: Removing leading '/' from member names / /sbin /sbin/dump_cis /sbin/request-key /sbin/agetty
Well those were the first ones, and the reason I could catch those is at that point SSH prompted my for the remote user password.
If I watch the screen (without getting sick with the fast scrolling), I see other '/' being removed comments.
That is really what you want anyway. With a '/', you have absolute pathname and can't as easily recover into a "working" directory. With it removed, you have a "relative" path and can easily restore to a working or to the original directory.
As to your "seasickness", redirect stdout and stderr into a file. Then you can examine the file later, or tail it as it runs. Like so
tar <some junk> &>/tmp/tar.out # Puts norm and errors together or tar <some junk> >/tmp/normal.out 2>/tmp/error.out
as examples.
-- Bill