On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 14:28 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Robert wrote: > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> Robert wrote: > >>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>>><snip> > 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