Hi all,

thanks a lot to all that replied.

As "always" it was my mistake ;-))

The problems were, unpacking the file sets on linux:

>tar xzpf $BASEDIR/binary/sets/base.tgz
>tar: couldn't change access and modification times of ./bin/rmail : No such
>file
> or directory
>tar: cannot change mode of file ./bin/rmail to 0755 : No such file or
>directory


And this worked without problems on a NetBSD BFS server, what was wrong too.

What happen, (unpacking the binary sets NOT in the root directory) is that
in the tar file ./bin/rmail is a link to /usr/libexec/rmail. This file exist
on NetBSD systems, but not "somewhere" on a linux NFS server.

So: on a NetBSD, i don't get any errors unpacking, but symbolic links to
wrong files,

On linux i got an error, what i thought was wrong.

(I hope, somebody undertand, what i tried to explain ;-))

cheers & sorry for the wasted bandwidth,
emanuel