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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