>Anyone know what's going on with runtar?
Runtar is a simple wrapper around GNU tar. It's only point in life is
to be setuid-root so it can pass that privilege on to GNU tar. It's
GNU tar that's having trouble with the unsigned long uid_t on AIX.
Actually, that's not even quite true. The tar header format has room
for 8 *octal* characters in the uid field. 8**8 -> 16777215.
The tar header extension (ustar) supports a login *name* rather than uid,
so there might be hope.
I could not find this message in the tar sources I looked at.
What version of GNU tar are you using? /usr/local/bin/tar --version
You might also do this on hendrix:
find /usr -xdev -user 4294967294 -print
and see what showed up on your system all of the sudden. Note that
4294967294 is probably also known as -2.
"If it hurts when you do that, don't do that." :-)
>Terry
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
