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

tar error

Daniel Fourie — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 07:20:43 GMT

When I try to untar a file that contains a NNM 6.1 database I get the following error into the untar process "directory checksum error".
I make use of the following command -- (tar -xvf test.tar).

Can anyone please help me with this problem.

Regards and Thanks

Re: tar error

Ollie R — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 08:24:07 GMT

Hi Daniel,

Try checking the file type by using:
file

If it says that this is a tar archive then check the way you transferred it to the system - for example, was it FTP'd using ASCII format instead of BINARY...?

Let us know the results!

Ollie.

Re: tar error

T G Manikandan — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 08:33:05 GMT

checksum error could be because of

1.incomplete download file.

2.ascii transfer from the windows machine.

Transfer the file in binary mode from windows machine

Thanks