It may be a problem with the default version of tar installed on Solaris. I ran into this problem (at around 4:00am the night/day before a project was due!). The version of tar that comes with Solaris has a nasty issue in that it limits the length of the names of files to a very small number of characters (Can't remember what that value is, but it's easy to overrun it). If you try to use it to untar a gnu-tarred archive that has names longer that the limit you wind up with these mysterious errors.
Try installing gnu-tar and re-installing the tomcat archive. You can find gnu-tar at: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html Regards, Pete. On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:12:31 +0530 "amit_mahajan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to install Tomcat 4.0.4 on a Sun Solaris 8 machine which has Apache > 1.3.26. > > I have downloaded from the Tomcat site the file jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4.tar.gz > which I am trying to un-tar on the Solaris machine but I keep getting a > checksum error each time I try. And though a lot of folders are created, most > of them are emtpy without the files in them. I am running the following > commands : > > $gunzip jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4.tar.gz > $tar -xvf jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4.tar > > However, if I unzip on a Win 2K machine, I am able to get a complete expanded > directory. Also the size of the downloaded jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4.tar.gz file I > have is 4.04 MB (4,241,667 bytes) - or 4,134 KB. > > Has anyone faced a similar problem or can someone please point out what I may > be doing wrong. > > Thanks, > Amit > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Peter Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] What did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of about Down Under up for? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
