tar issue

[sreejith_4]

Hi,

Any idea about this error.

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

Thanks in Advance
Sreejith M

[Naveej.K.A]

hi sreejith,

which OS??

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

regds
Naveej

[Manish Srivastava]

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

[Eric Antunes]

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

[sreejith_4]

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

[harry d brown jr]

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

[Eric Antunes]

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."

[harry d brown jr]

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.

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harry

[harry d brown jr]

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

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harry

[Eric Antunes]

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

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