dhmadsen@icaen.uiowa.edu (Donald H Madsen) (03/30/91)
My system uses Xenix 2.3.3 and I have had a subdirectory with a couple of files and it included a subdirectory with several files that existed for quite some time. During that time several backups were made with the command tar -cAe / I now discover that those files never were on any of the archives. Perhaps others are missing, but this is the first time that I have failed to find a requested file. A tar t > filename has been done and that dis\d not reports the files in those subdirectories. What happened? dhmadsen@icaen.uiowa.edu
kirkenda@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall) (04/01/91)
In article <5139@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> dhmadsen@icaen.uiowa.edu (Donald H Madsen) writes: >My system uses Xenix 2.3.3 and I have had a subdirectory with a couple >of files and it included a subdirectory with several files that existed >for quite some time. During that time several backups were made with >the command tar -cAe / > >I now discover that those files never were on any of the archives. This reminds me of a problem I had once on a Xenix system. Tar was refusing to backup a directory. This directory was actually the root directory of an extra mounted filesystem. I has been a few years, and I may be remembering this wrong but... I think another symptom was that "pwd" didn't work from within that directory or a subdirectory. Or maybe it did; its been so long... The rwx permissions seemed to be enabled for all of the directories involved -- enabled for the superuser, anyway. "Tar" was being run by the superuser. The cause of my problem turned out to be: The directory upon which the offending filesystem was mounted DID NOT HAVE THE "R" AND "X" PERMISSIONS ENABLED! The only way you can detect this is by looking at the permissions of the directory *before* you mount the filesystem onto it. When I turned on "r" and "x" and remounted the filesystem, everything worked fine. You never mentioned multiple filesystems while describing your problem, but this is still something to watch out for. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Kirkendall kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu Grad student at Portland State U.