Someone mentioned on this list earlier that "exclude list" won't work with GNU tar 1.13, and that version 1.13.19 was required. I think I have verified that; our Linux clients have tar version 1.13.19, and on those "exclude list" (or tar --exclude-from) seems to work fine, while on our SGI clients (which includes the server with most of the file systems) with tar 1.13 it doesn't.
Anyhow, the big question is: Where does version 1.13.19 come from? ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar has nothing newer than 1.13 from 1999. -- Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
