-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, I think that tar has also other problems under FC4: yesterday I discovered that it does not recognize neither the "--exclude" option, nor the "--exclude-from" one. Bye Alb >>> 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. - -- Home page: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/albertoferrante -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCvUfz5B+JtMwlbk4RAol9AJ4leFvqKwqSXhW0yUV1sBLDWE9+dQCfYAI6 eKP73mAXoBso4UwbhvXE5ww= =76kG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it