[14207] in Athena Bugs
sun4m 7.7V: tar's default device
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Feb 25 13:04:19 1996
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:04:14 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
On Athena Solaris boxes, the default device
for tar is /dev/rmt/0, which doesn't exist.
This tends to lead to users (as root) creating large files named
/dev/rmt/0, while trying to tar things up.
/etc/default/tar should be fixed to contain a sane default,
like /dev/zero for those workstations lacking tape devices.
--jhawk
