Thanks to both John and Jonathan!!!
I checked the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files which had user/group
nobody with the id of 4294967294. After I changed that, I ran amdump
and still got the same error. I found a directory with the uid/gid as
4294967294. When I changed that, no more errors!
Thanks again,
Terry
"John R. Jackson" wrote:
>
> >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]
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