Amanda-Users

Re: Index file is empty - cygwin - using latest verion on tar

2003-07-02 19:11:28
Subject: Re: Index file is empty - cygwin - using latest verion on tar
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:08:48 -0400
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:54:07AM +1200, Michael Gabriel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I don't think that it's a path problem because tar is also in the same 
> directoy and that is found ok.  I'm using the 1.13.-25 of tar.
> 
> In the Clients /tmp/amanda/sendbackup log,  I get this.
> 
> sendbackup: started index creator: "/bin/tar -tf - 2>/dev/null | sed -e 
> 's/^\.//'"
> sendbackup-gnutar: /usr/local/libexec/runtar    pid 1520
> index pipe returned 32512

Except tar is not looked for using the PATH variable, it is run
as /bin/tar skipping PATH search.  "sed" on the other hand does
use a PATH variable search in the above command line.

-- 
Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
 JG Computing
 4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
 Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)