Re: Error: gtar: uid_t value 4294967294 too large (max=16777215)

[John R. Jackson]

>I checked the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files which had user/group
>nobody with the id of 4294967294.  After I changed that ...

Ummm, you changed the gid and uid of "nobody"?  That was probably kind
of rash.  There are things floating around that know about that and
expect a specific value.  Like NFS :-).

>Terry

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]