Re: FreeBSD Batch Downloads

This new commandline seems to work cleanly on Linux as well. I've committed 
the change to CVS.

Thanks Florian!

Blake

At 05:45 PM 3/9/2003 +0100, Florian Maul wrote:
>Hello Elijah,
>
> > With a little help from one of the users on this list I am able to
> > see what the problem is but can't fix it. It seems FreeBSD might use
> > a different command line of tar. A man tar tells me that the default
> > device for the tar command is a tape drive /dev/sa0
>Right, apparently the freebsd tar uses /dev/sa0 as default output
>device unlike the linux tar (GNU tar!?) that sends the output to
>STDOUT which the netjuke script batch.php expects.
>
>Netjuke uses 'tar c -C <basedir> <files>' at the moment, which doesn't
>specify stdout as output explicitly. I suggest changing the command to
>'tar cf - -C <basedir> <files>' which tells tar to use - (stdout) as
>output file.
>
>I attached a version of batch.php which is changed accordingly.
>
>Florian



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