On Dec 28, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Willie Wong wrote:

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +0000, Penguin Lover Mick squawked:
On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 +0000 (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote:

What does "not a regular file" mean? :=@

Do an 'ls -l /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp and the first character
on the left
will tell you what kind of file is this.

OK, I am back at home now and have checked. It is a normal directory with normal files in it (well, it has ccache, kdecache, portage and the tmp symlink). So I am at a loss as to why it won't copy over. Any ideas?

Directories need the -r option for recursive copying.

unless you are taring them.
W
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