On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 at 10:26am, Kurt Yoder wrote > > tar is nice for being so cross platform. If you can get that to go, > > it > > might be your better option. > > OK, I got gnu tar 1.13 compiled and working. However, I still get > the "disk offline" error. Now in /tmp/amanda/sendsize... I see this > which doesn't look good either:
tar 1.13 is Bad. Grab 1.13.25 from alpha.gnu.org. > sendsize[15492]: time 0.028: error [cannot find user backup in > passwd file] > sendsize[15492]: time 0.059: > sendsize[15492]: time 0.060: ..... > sendsize[15492]: estimate time for / level 0: 0.044 > sendsize[15492]: no size line match in /usr/local/bin/tar output for > "/" > > Again I see "cannot find user backup in passwd file". In looking at > /etc, I noticed the passwd file is actually a symlink to a passwd > file in another directory (For anyone who has SCO, why in GOD'S NAME > do they do this symlink BS for everything? It is horrible!). Is this > the only problem that's stopping me here, or is there anything else > that needs fixing? I'm guessing that if you fix access to /etc/passwd, you'll be a lot closer to making this work. What are the owner and permissions on what /etc/passwd points to (and yes, that is brain dead)? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
