On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 23:37 -0700, Charles A. Crayne wrote: > I use tar with the --newer option to create incremental backups. However, > with tar-1.15.1, which is part of the FC4 distribution, I get an error > messages for each file which is not newer than the specified date -- which > means that I am getting email messages from cron which are multiple > megabytes in length. Does anyone know how to suppress these messages > without sending the entire output to /dev/null? I don't know a solution for tar, but maybe you should switch to star (also part of FC4), which allows much more control. -- Gérard Milmeister Langackerstrasse 49 CH-8057 Zürich