topic Re: tar issue in Operating System - HP-UX

tar issue

sreejith_4 — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:26:23 GMT

Hi,

Any idea about this error.

tar: uid_t value 18446744073709551614 too large (max=16777215); substituting 60001

Thanks in Advance
Sreejith M

Re: tar issue

Naveej.K.A — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:30:13 GMT

hi sreejith,

which OS??

when does this error come?? I mean which command produce this error??

regds
Naveej

Re: tar issue

Manish Srivastava — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:35:04 GMT

Hi,

I have never seen this problem. Looks like a case of overflow of uid_t type. COuld you give the version of HPUX where you see this problem.

manish

Re: tar issue

Eric Antunes — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:35:29 GMT

It's seems to me that you are trying to add/extract a larger than maximum allowed file.

Re: tar issue

sreejith_4 — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:38:14 GMT

This is happening in hp 11.0 while using tar through some scripts.

Re: tar issue

harry d brown jr — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:38:23 GMT

It's easy, you have a UID that is TOO LARGE for tar to handle. I'm not sure the patches for tar fix it, so I suggest you try GNU's TAR :

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.14/

live free or die
harry

Re: tar issue

Eric Antunes — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:39:52 GMT

Here is the warning from tar manual:

"Because of industry standards and interoperability goals, tar does not support the archival of files larger than 2GB or files that have user/group IDs greater than 60K. Files with user/group IDs greater than 60K are archived and restored under the user/group ID of the current process."

Re: tar issue

harry d brown jr — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:41:10 GMT

It has nothing to do with the SIZE of the file. It is a UID issue. A lot of older apps can not handle LARGE Integers. tar "handles" it by changing the UID of the file as it put's it to tape.

live free or die
harry

Re: tar issue

harry d brown jr — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:49:14 GMT

A patched "tar":

man tar (extract):

Because of industry standards and interoperability goals, tar does not support the archival of files larger than 8GB or files that have user/group IDs greater than 2048k. Files with user/group IDs greater than 2048k are archived and restored under the user/group ID of the current process, unless the uname/gname exists (see tar(4)).

go with gnu's tar

live free or die
harry

Re: tar issue

Eric Antunes — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:18:20 GMT

This is the same issue, just with other values...!

Besides, my unpacthed tar(1) works very well for me.