[FC5] Tar strangeness

[Randy Wyatt]

On 5/13/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 01:07, M.Lewis wrote:
> > In trying to backup my t'bird installation (which I have done without
> > errors plenty of times with FC4) I'm getting the following error. Always
> > on the same mbox file:
> >
> > ....
> > ....
> > /home/cajun/mail/Saved Mail
> > /home/cajun/mail/ALL-Humor
> > tar: /home/cajun/mail: file changed as we read it
> >
> >
> > I have even went as far as to stop Dovecot when trying to backup my
> > t'bird. Of course, t'bird is not running at the time. Anyone have any
> > clues as to what might be happening?
>
> Do an 'ls -l /home/cajun/mail' before and after the tar run to
> see if tar is correct.  Does new mail deliver directly to this
> mailbox?
>
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Have you used LSOF  to verify if the directory is still opened after
closing thunderbird?