On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:09:34 +0800
Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> How come this is not working??
> 
> portage $ tar -lcf - .  | ssh  -l root x.x.x.x  "tar -xvpf - -C
> /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage"

Is the target machine running GNU tar as well? If so, this *should* work.

Alternatively, you can use 
$ scp -rp * [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage
or
$ scp -rp * -l root x.x.x.x:/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage

That's much more portable.

Regards

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