Thanks guys, worked like a charm.   I figured that must have been it,
didn't see a version of tar later than 1.13 at the mirror I went to
initially.  I'm using gnu tar 1.13.25 now with no problems (yet!)
Thanks again,

Rafe

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 11:56am, Rafe Thayer wrote
>
> > 06573011000/./security/dev/audio
> > 06573011000/./security/dev/fd0
> > 06573011000/./security/dev/sr0
> > 06573011000/./security/dev/st0
> > 06573011000/./security/dev/st1
>
> > (these are just the contents of /etc on each host).  The version of tar on
> > the solaris machine is 1.13.  I've heard tar can cause some problems.  Do
> > you think that might be it?
>
> Those are corrupted index files due to a bad version of tar.  You need at
> least 1.13.17, or 1.13.19.  They're available from alpha.gnu.org.  If the
> location of GNUtar moves when you reinstall it, make sure to recompile
> amanda so that it picks up the correct version.
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
>
>

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