Error message: tar: could not stat /some/valid/file
uunet!bria!mike
uunet!bria!mike
Mon Jan 14 12:51:14 AEST 1991
In article <459 at twg.bc.ca> twg.bc.ca!bill (Bill Irwin) writes:
>Since this is a large archive on a 60Mb tape I am prompted twice
>to insert the next volume. I find it strange that this prompting
>message is sent to the standard error (and thus to the error log
>file) rather than the standard output [...]
The reason that tar writes to standard error is that you could just
as easily do:
tar cvfF - /tmp/Master.list | dd of=/dev/rmt0 bs=512k
If tar displayed it's messages on stdout, then in this case the tape
archive would get hosed ...
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Michael Stefanik, Systems Engineer (JOAT), Briareus Corporation
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