In /usr/include there is a softlink called ncurses pointing to . I want to make a backup of the whole machine, so I connected to it via ftp as root, cd'ed to / and said: get ..tar
But now tar gets stuck with that softlink pointing to itself: Its still transfering, but a tar -tf just shows more and more ncurses adding to /isr/include/ncurses. Why does tar not just pack that softlink, but tries to copy the file its pointing to? Why is that ncurses pointing to . anyway? Stef
