topic Re: tar in Operating System - HP-UX

tar

sreejith_4 — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:06:34 GMT

Hi,

I am getting following error while executing tar,

/tools/opt/bin/tar: uid_t value 18446744073709551614 too large (max=16777215); substituting 60001
/tools/opt/bin/tar: uid_t value 18446744073709551614 too large (max=16777215); substituting 60001

pls help

Re: tar

Henk Geurts — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:18:30 GMT

hi Sreejith
It is as Harry discribes in thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=625179

tar can't handle your large userids and replaces them.

what is the output of :
what /usr/bin/tar
?

regards.

Re: tar

sreejith_4 — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:23:44 GMT

Thanx