On 4/11/99 Hugo Bouckaert wrote:
>"stdout File too large"
>
>on the command line when the job finishes (or exists too soon?).
>
>I thought the first time that the job didn't complete properly, that is,
>that the tar job exited before completing because what I was trying to
>tar up was simply too large. So I spit the directories to be tarred up
>into two (directories A to L in one tar job, and directories M to Z in
>the other). So each tar archive had to tar up half of what was done
>before. I still got the output "stdout File too large, for both tar
>archives.
>
>I am starting to wonder if I have to worry about this message. The tar
>archives are both rather large so that maybe everything is tarred up
>after all. However, how can I be sure - this is a bit hard to verify.
>
>Does anyone have any experience with getting such a message? Does anyone
>knows whether the tar archive is OK or not?
>
>Any information will be most appreciated.
it sounds like you are exceeding the 2GB file limit, how big is the
resulting file? is it exactly 2.0GB? (ls -lh if you have recent ls)
if so its probably hitting that 2GB limit and stopping, in which case
the archive would be incomplete.
Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
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