On Wednesday 13 September 2006 15:02, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:47:26PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote:
>> Frank and Alex, thanks for replying. Alex, you're right, I believe,
>> GNUtar behaves differently than tar with respect to symbolic links, and
>> I'm using GNUtar:
>> amanda@cn2:/var/lib$ tar --version
>> tar (GNU tar) 1.14
>
>Likely unrelated to your current difficulties,
>but plain 1.14 gnutar has be reported to have
>difficulties with amanda.  I haven't followed
>the discussion closely, but I think 1.14.1 and
>1.14.2 are both considered ok.  A complicating
>factor is the report that some linux vendors,
>I think RH was mentioned, supply a 1.14 with
>the later bug fix patches applied.  These work
>ok also but because they are based on the 1.14
>code, that is the version reported.

The 1.14-* rpms supplied for FC2 did not work for me, Jon.  I backed up to 
1.13-25 since the rpm was still on-site, and eventually built 1.15-1 from 
the tarball, which also works fine.  I used 1.13-19 for quite a while 
early on.

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