Re: buggy gnutar

2003-01-18 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Joshua Baker-LePain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030117 16:54] thus spake: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 4:17pm, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote > > > So after going through some index files and cleaning them and > > verifying that amrecover can deal with them I wonder what else might > > have gone wrong usin

Re: buggy gnutar

2003-01-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 January 2003 16:17, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: >Hello, >[...] >Does someone knows which sub-version of gnutar 1.13 are affected > with this bug? Its generally agreed that 1.13-19 and 1.13-25 do _not_ suffer from this bug. The newest, 1.13-25 version you have to get from alpha.gnu

Re: buggy gnutar

2003-01-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 4:17pm, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote > So after going through some index files and cleaning them and > verifying that amrecover can deal with them I wonder what else might > have gone wrong using this gnutar version. ISTR that the backups themselves are actually fine. > Doe

buggy gnutar

2003-01-17 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, I just realized yesterday that one of my amanda client is using a buggy version of gnutar (SGI Freeware version 1.13) and that the index files have garbage at the beginning of each line: 07607207551/./amanda/etc/ ^ | crap! preventing me from using amrec