recovering from stupidity tar

[dbrett]

I was afraid of this.  Thanks.  

I did install it from a tar ball.  I had to do lots of twisting to get it
work the first time.

david

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mike Burger wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, dbrett wrote:
> 
> > What I attempted and what I got were too different things.  Now I am in
> > need of advice on how to recover from my own stupidity.  Below is the tar
> > command I ran and the first output line.
> > 
> > 
> > tar -cvf /usr/bin/kstars /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kstars
> > /usr/share/apps/kstars
> > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> 
> Well, it would seem that you inadvertantly overwrote /usr/bin/kstars with 
> a tar file of the same name.
> 
> At present, I'd say the only option you have is to simply replace the 
> kstars executable.  Did you install from some sort of RPM, or compile from 
> a kstars tarball?
> 
> -- 
> Mike Burger
> http://www.bubbanfriends.org
> 
> Visit the Dog Pound II BBS
> telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org
> 
> To be notified of updates to the web site, visit 
> http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a 
> message to:
> 
> site-update-request at bubbanfriends.org
> 
> with a message of: 
> 
> subscribe
> 
> 
> -- 
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
>