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.

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