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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined?
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:04:43
Message-Id: 20051228230010.GA23973@princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined? by Mick
1 On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +0000, Penguin Lover Mick squawked:
2 > >> On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 +0000 (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote:
3 > >
4 > >> > What does "not a regular file" mean? :=@
5 > >>
6 > >> Do an 'ls -l /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp and the first character
7 > >> on the left
8 > >> will tell you what kind of file is this.
9 >
10 > OK, I am back at home now and have checked. It is a normal directory with
11 > normal files in it (well, it has ccache, kdecache, portage and the tmp
12 > symlink). So I am at a loss as to why it won't copy over. Any ideas?
13
14 Directories need the -r option for recursive copying.
15
16 W
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