ignite make tape recovery errors: link names too long

[John Kittel]

After recently installing hp-ux 11.11 internet express bundle, I now get the following when creating ignite tapes.

Anything I can do other than remove or rename the offending files?

* Archiving contents of ... via tar image to local device/dev/rmt/0mn.
pax: opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/PA-RISC1.1-thread-multi/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE/manag
esieve/managesieve.bs : Link name is longer than 100 chars.
pax: opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/PA-RISC1.1-thread-multi/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE/manag
esieve/managesieve.sl : Link name is longer than 100 chars.

WARNING: The pax command returned a non-zero exit status (exit status 1)
* Creation of system archive complete

[Mark Fenton · Accepted solution]

That or just skip that directory when creating your tape image?

Per the documentation, pax has a hard limit of 100 characters in a link name.

[Joel Girot]

in my hpux 11.11 box the longest name for perl 5.8.3 is "/opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/PA-RISC1.1-thread-multi/auto/Net/SSLeay/open_proxy_tcp_connection.al" : 98 characters. maybe you can upgrade perl to version 5.8.3 ?
Joel

[John Kittel]

Excellent idea to skip the directory. Thanks Mark.