CA-Jobtrac Agent Installation

[Peter Gillis]

Attempting install of CA-Jobtrac Agent 1.0 on HP 9000 series. (op sys = 11.0). Have issued the following cmd as specified in install instructions:
uncompress -c setup.tar.Z | tar -xvf -


The following resulted:
x ./setup.cfg, 600 bytes, 2 tape blocks
x ./setup2, 29985 bytes, 59 tape blocks
x ./HPkernel, 185 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x ./OSmaint.check, 8353 bytes, 17 tape blocks
directory checksum error
I have tried running the setup file but that comes back with :

ERROR: Cannot find lcl_echo_func file

Obviously something is missing. Has anyone else tried this install, with same problems and managed to work it out correctly? How? also, what does that 'directory checksum error' really mean? I have a feeling this is why the setup job did not work!

Hope someone has some ideas, thanks for your help in advance.
Maria.

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

AT first glance it looks like the tar archive
could be corrupted. In saying that I would try
a slightly different approach.

# compress -d setup.tar.Z
# tar tvf setup.tar
Make sure the contents of the file can be read.
If it is ok, then try to extract
# tar xvf setup.tar

Let us know the result. The directory checksum
could mean that the archive is corrupt.

Michael

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

The command tar reads the stored checksum from the tar archive file and related info to calculate the checksum value and when it failed to match you'll get the "dir checksum.." error. In your case the compressed tar file might be corrupted. Was it downloaded or read from the tape/CD ?
What if you just run tar listing (tvf), does it give you the error ..
# uncompress -c setup.tar.Z | tar -tvf -

If it doesn't you can also try this ..
# uncompress setup.tar.Z
# tar -xvf setup.tar

[Peter Gillis]

S.K. Chan and Michael, thankyou for your responses. Both were right - tar file was corrupted. I removed and downloaded it again and all so far is going well. Thanks for explanation of directory checksum error also.
Apologies for the delay in assigning points - they are definitely there now.
Maria.