schuler@palantir.gsfc.nasa.gov (Larry Schuler - RMS) (09/21/89)
I am trying to create a tar tape on an SC40 tape drive using the following syntax, tar cvbBf 16 72000 /dev/rmt/tc1 mydir The tape is starting ok, but when it hits a directory that contains many symbolic links, tar core dumps with a segmentation fault. The problem appears to be with the symbolic links, or number and combination thereof; because, if I create a directory with approx 25 files and 25 symbolic links to those files (note: the symbolic link names all begin wityh caps, does this mean anything?), tar behaves very strangley when making a tar file. If I just do a "tar cvf - * >/dev/null" of the directory, it will save all the symbolic links, but will print an "error, cannot open <file>" when it tries to read the regular files. What is going on here ? Does anyone have any ideas, or is this a known "feature"? -- -Larry "Fair is fair, Larry. ... We're out of food, we drew straws - schuler@palantir.gsfc.nasa.gov - you lost." - G. Larson