FC4 tar is out of control

[Alberto Ferrante]

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Well, I think that tar has also other problems under FC4: yesterday I
discovered that it does not recognize neither the "--exclude" option,
nor the "--exclude-from" one.

Bye
	Alb

>>> I use tar with the --newer option to create incremental backups.
>>> However, with tar-1.15.1, which is part of the FC4 distribution,
>>> I get an error messages for each file which is not newer than the
>>> specified date -- which means that I am getting email messages
>>> from cron which are multiple megabytes in length. Does anyone
>>> know how to suppress these messages without sending the entire
>>> output to /dev/null?
> 
> I don't know a solution for tar, but maybe you should switch to star 
> (also part of FC4), which allows much more control.

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