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Best of Technical Support Various Issue #87, July 2001 Our experts answer your technical questions. Tar over rsh I’m running a small private LAN with Linux Red Hat 7.0. The following command was entered on system “lucy”, with the resultant message: [root@lucy]# tar cvf testbed:/home/someuser file.txt Permission denied. tar: testbed\:/home/someuser: Cannot open: Input/output error tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting ...

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