Turns out I had made the tar file with GNU tar on my Solaris 7 box. I had forgotten I had installed it there. Sun tar was on Solaris 8 and could not handle it. Thanks to all for their help. -michael Michael DeSimone Computers & Stuff http://www.desimone.net/solaris/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael DeSimone" <michael@desimone.net> To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:34 PM Subject: tar issue > I have a tar file that I created on a Solaris 7 (11/99) machine of a > directory. It is about 1.4 GB is size. It will un tar fine on another > Solaris 7 machine. It will NOT un tar on a Solaris 8 (02/02) machine. I get > a directory checksum error every time. Also the directory does reside on a > Netapp and I am trying to untar to the same Netapp, on a different > partition. The version of tar appears to be the same. Both systems are > running the 32 bit kernel. > > Has anyone seen this before? Is it documented anywhere? > > Thanks, > Michael DeSimone > Computers & Stuff > http://www.desimone.net/solaris/ > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Nov 7 18:11:07 2002
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