On 2006-03-16 18:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Dave Ewart schrieb:
On Wednesday, 08.03.2006 at 10:27 -0500, Ian Turner wrote:
Please
try upgrading your tar and check if you still see this behaviour.
OK, you've hit the nail on the head:
Using the existing system tar:
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.14
And using a rebuilt version from a more recent source:
$ ~/src/tar-1.15.1/src/tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1
A new tar is indeed the answer it seems.
Suggestion related to the tar-issues:
Why not implement some check-routine into Amanda that checks for the
installed tar-release and gives a WARNING if a well-known problematic
release is found?
That would give a lot of false positives.
RedHat for example backports important bugfixes to earlier versions
of programs. And while the "tar --version" here says "1.14"
Redhad has its own numbering scheme found by "rpm -q tar", resulting
in "tar-1.14-9.RHEL4", on my machine. And that version has all the
known critical bugs fixed, included the one above.
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