> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Phillip Smith > Sent: January 9, 2003 10:23 AM > To: 'Greg 'groggy' Lehey' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: help! Problems with TAR archives? [snip] > > What does tar t tell you on the FreeBSD side? > > tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive. > tar: Skipping to next file header... > tar: only read 521 bytes from archive etc.rein.tar > > Also, I tried re-creating the problem. Exact same scenario. > Created a new TAR archive, ftp'd from FreeBSD to Window (not > specifying a setting), then used 'get' to bring them back to > FreeBSD and the archives are fine. So, I'm thinking that the > original archives are corrupt... >
I've tried a few other scenarios and this is what I've discovered... - I'm using tar -zcpvf filename.tar.gz targetdir to create the archive - using any variation of tar -zxpvf gets the messages I've outlined above - same if I gunzip the archive first, then try tar -xpvf So I tried on some new tar files, only transfering from BSD to BSD and found that, for some reason, I'm getting the same error (e.g. tar with zcpvf and ftp/binary from BSD to BSD). Now I'm confused. So, I repeat the same process without the gzip (tar cpvf and ftp/binary from BSD to BSD), and presto the archives are fine. I would assume from this, that I'm doing something wrong with the gzip? Or that gzip is doing something funny. Any thoughts? p. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
