You are using Sun Solaris tar on the Solaris machine and GNU tar on the
linux machines. Solaris tar doesn't support user@machine taring as far as
I know. Get GNUtar and compile it on the sparc.
Geoff Norton
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University of Toronto
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Kins Orekhov wrote:
> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:48:53 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Kins Orekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SSH 1.2.26 on Solaris 2.6
>
>
> Hi all!
>
> Have some strange problem on Solaris 2.6 machine (sparc).
> I'm trying to do following:
>
> machine1$ tar cvf user@machine2:/tmp/filename.tar /etc \
> --rsh-command=/usr/local/bin/ssh
>
> And I got a message:
> tar: Cannot open user@machine1:test.tar: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> There's the same message even if I try to create filename.tar on machine1!
> But that command works just fine on Linux boxes (RH6 and Debian2 on x86)!
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> TIA
>
> Kins.
>
>
