On Jun 15 14:48, Rick Rankin wrote: > --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 11 14:02, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > After upgrading to 1.5.10, I'm seem to be having a problem creating files > > on > > > network drives using tar. For quite a while now (a couple of years, at > > least), > > > I've been using tar to back up several directories to a network share, and > > had > > > no problems up through version 1.5.9. However, with 1.5.10-3, I get the > > message > > > > > > tar: /cygdrive/m/test.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory > > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > > > > when I issue the command > > > > > > tar -cf /cygdrive/m/test.tar test > > > > WFM. Could you send an strace output of that command? Perhaps that > > helps. > > > > Corinna, > > The strace output is attached. I looked at it some, but without looking at the > cygwin internals (I can't access external CVS repositories from work), it > doesn't make too much sense. Windows error 2 (The system cannot find the file > specified.) is accurate. The file really doesn't exist. If I execute 'touch > /cygdrive/m/test.tar' prior to running the tar command above, tar executes just > fine.
Still, I can't reproduce that. I can successfully create a tar archive on a remote drive, same command as above, on a Samba share as well as on a NT4 share. Hmm, could you try a recent developers snapshot from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ ? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
