Re: Weird time on /dev/pts

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:00:59AM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> I am getting a strange error on my Ubuntu system when trying to back
> up my NetBSD  -current box.  I use rsync and I keep getting this error:
> 
> Time value of dev/pts truncated on receiver.
> 
> When I check on NetBSD it looks like this:
> 
> # ls -ld pts
> dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  512 Oct 21       pts

You are using ptyfs mounted there?

It shows up as epoch on -current for me:
# ls -lTd /dev/pts
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  512 Jan  1 01:00:00 1970 /dev/pts/

Besides, backing that directory up does not make much sense, I would just
--exclude=dev/pts it from the rsync.

Martin