On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Radhika Sambamurti wrote:

> I am running netbsd 3.0.
> I keep getting this error when trying to create a tar file...
> 
> bash-3.1# tar -cvzh pgdata.tar.gz pgdata

Typo. End that option with "f" for filename not "h".

tar -cvzf pgdata.tar.gz pgdata

> tar: Failed open to write on /dev/nrst0 (Device not configured)
> tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file

Without "f" it assumes to use tape device instead of archive file.

> 
> Any idea as to what is going on here.
  Jeremy C. Reed