Tar not working under FC4 as it does with FC3

[Robert Nichols]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:24, Robert Nichols wrote:
> 
>>>>I can't figure out what is happening to my backups, apparently something in
>>>>tar has changed, but I can't find anything in the docs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>LOG=${SERVER}'-backup.log'
>>>>       nice -n 14 tar -czf ${BACKUP_LOC}/D-Backup-${DATE}.tar.gz /
>>>>--exclude-from ${EXCLUDE} -g ${CONFIG_LOC}/${LOG}
>>>
>>>
>>>Try putting the options before the target like the docs say.  I
>>>think it was an accident that this ever worked.
>>
>>That argument list consists entirely of options and arguments to those
>>options.  If you are suggesting that the "-f ARCHIVE" option needs to
>>be the last option, I would like to know where in the tar documentation
>>you find that restriction.
> 
> 
> Isn't the / the target that you want to copy?  Tar has always had an
> oddball argument processing routine to support the ancient bundled
> one letter options without any leading '-' but I think the last
> version became slightly more normal by not looking for more options
> after hitting the file/directory name(s) that are supposed to be
> at the end.

Mea culpa!  The way that line got word wrapped, I saw the "/" as
a "\" denoting line continuation.  Yes, you're right.  Sorry
about that.

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