I am moving this issue to it's own thread since I misplaced it and it doesn't 
seem to draw any attention:

amercover segfaults on me when trying to access directories with long names. I 
managed to find this email:

http://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users AT amanda DOT org/msg22228.html

and using addx and cdx works for me too.

However this is quite a serious bug. Is anyone aware of this? Is it being 
addressed ?

The server I am using is amanda-2.4.4p2-3 on fedora 2. It's from a fedora 2 rpm
The problem occurs both amrecover on the same machine and on a fedora 1 machine 
with amanda-2.4.4p1-1

I am using the tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 that comes with fedora 2 on the server

The pathname I was trying to recover is 91 chars long and includes spaces, but 
only normal chars (i.e. [[:alphanum:]/] in regex)

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to reproduce this so it could be 
systematically checked ?

Shai
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