Re: OS X and tar

on 03/24/2003 12:58 AM, Florian Maul at [email protected] wrote:

> Hello Scott,
> 
>> Has anyone got tar downloading to work under OS X? All I can get it
>> to do is create a zero byte file
> Unfortunately, the commandline which is used to run tar in netjuke
> 1.0b17 is apparently not very system independent - that might lead to
> problems on OS X. Here is how we fixed that problem on freebsd
> earlier:
> 
>> 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 <[email protected]>

Thanks, sorry for the multiple postings, had some trouble with the list
today :-)  I managed to get it to work, but I will use your file as it also
works. thanks

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