martin f krafft declaimed: > > | > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > > | > | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with > > | > | causing recursion? > > why would you want to backup /tmp??? > The question was how to back up to a file _in_ /tmp. Which will be deleted at the next restart, right? -- Paul Mackinney | Another look at Sept 11 paul@mackinney.net | http://www.copvcia.com/