Re: [bu-users] New to the List (pax on Slackware Linux)

[Vincent S. <bu...@hi...>]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 06:54:44AM -0600, Mel Sojka wrote:
> Well I have just installed BU and the install worked fine except it did 
> not create the .burc in my root directory. 

Hi Mel.

Do you mean root's home directory?  Bu always creates the .burc file in
the home directory of the user running it.  Did it say it created it?


> The OS on this end is slackware and I am having a bit of a problem.
> The log file shows in the error log PAX not found so what do I need to
> adjust. I tried to check this list archives but sourceforge seems to
> be a bit constipated this morning. Love the format if I could make it
> fly.  Mel

If you can not find a Slackware package you will have to compile it.
The source for a Linux port of pax is available on our web site in
http://hightek.org/bu/download/.

See http://hightek.org/bu/download/pax.html for more information.

I found a posting on the linuxquestions forum that indicates that
Slackware does not have a pax package if the author is correct.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2533466

<extract from the posting>
  At the moment I am writing a book about UNIX Systems, that covers
  GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris ...

  For instance (just to give one example): in the UNIX standards tar has
  been deprecated for pax for a while (though, pax can work with tar
  archives, and usually provides a tar compatibility mode). Slackware
  does not even provide pax. Red Hat does, Debian does if you install
  the LSB packages.
</extract>