Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:56:02 -0700 (PDT) From: darth@vader.dk To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: gnu/6338: Gnu tar not working properly with the -G option Message-ID: <199804172156.OAA09072@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 6338 >Category: gnu >Synopsis: Gnu tar not working properly with the -G option >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 17 15:00:02 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Chris Larsen >Organization: Babel: Internet Café >Release: 2.2.5 >Environment: FreeBSD ns.babel.dk 2.2.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE #1: Sat Apr 4 22:18:38 CEST 1998 vader@ns.babel.dk:/usr/src/sys/compile /PixieOS i386 >Description: When using the -G option of 'tar' the operation gives strange error: tar: Can't write to (null) : Bad address >How-To-Repeat: Example script: " #!/bin/csh # Dump thingie set now = `date -u` set then = `cat date.dump` tar -G -z -c -v \ -f /home/backup/incr.tgz \ -N "$then" \ -V "Dump from $then to $now" \ /home/vader1 echo $now > date.dump " Example output: " Dump from Fri Apr 17 02:23:53 GMT 1998 to Fri Apr 17 21:51:27 GMT 1998 tar: Directory /home/vader1/bin is new tar: Directory /home/vader1/etc is new tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive. home/vader1/ home/vader1/bin/ home/vader1/etc/ home/vader1/bin/compress home/vader1/bin/cpio home/vader1/bin/gzip home/vader1/bin/ls home/vader1/bin/tar home/vader1/bin/zcat tar: Can't write to (null) : Bad address " tar --version -> "GNU tar version 1.11.2" nothing is broken, as far as i can examine, the tar archive works. >Fix: Solution: Upgrade to version "tar (GNU tar) 1.12", solves the problem. Time to do an upgrade of the distributed binary ? or is it fixed in 3.x ? >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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