to make the tarball I use:
tar -cvf file_name /home
Then I ftp it over to the new RH9 box.
Then I extract the tarball (in the root directory) with:
tar -xvf file_name
When I look in the /home directory this is what I see:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ls -la
drwx------ 3 medrecord popusers 4096 Oct 7 2002 medrecord
drwx------ 4 michaelhelpman popusers 4096 Sep 28 2001 michaelhelpman
drwx------ 3 michell2krahn popusers 4096 May 21 11:35 michell2krahn
drwx------ 3 openwebermail popusers 4096 Jan 29 2003 openwebermail
drwx------ 5 paulfloxczak popusers 4096 Nov 20 2001 paulfloxczak
drwx------ 5 pfloxczak coinspump 4096 Nov 14 2001 pfloxczak
drwx------ 2 ophoenix ophoenix 4096 Sep 13 2002 ophoenix
drwx------ 5 rickkrahn popusers 4096 Nov 14 2001 rickkrahn
drwx------ 3 medscheduling popusers 4096 Oct 7 2002 medscheduling
.....
The user names are fully displayed instead of being truncated to maintain
the column listing.
I have seen this on another SCO UNIX box but I don't remember what I did to
fix it.
Thanks for your input.
stew
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerry Doris
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 1:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Strange directory listing after tar restore
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Stewart M. Ives wrote:
> I am building a RH 9 box and transferring the /home directory over by
first
> tar'ing up, then ftp to new box, then extract the tar. I have already
made
> the mods to passwd & group files to make all the users current on the new
> box.
>
> Problem is when I extract the tar everything comes out fine except when I
do
> a ls -la directory listing the owner name colume is not truncated to
column
> width and the whole directory listing looks out of wack.
>
> Any suggestions.
>
> Thanks.
>
> stew
What exactly is the tar command you're using?
--
Gerry
"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer
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