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 > >
