[SunHELP] Tar error

[Dale Ghent]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Tope Songonuga wrote:

| 
| Hi guys
| 
| Does anyone know what this error message means?
| 
|              /usr/local/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
| 
| The tar job is meant to archive about 16 files, but it hits the above error
| on the 2nd file, and carries on tarring, and I can read them all back from
| the tape, but when I try to extract the files from the archive, I get the
| following error:
| 
|              'filename'  Not found in archive

How long is the path of these files in the tar ball? There's a bug in
Sun's tar that causes it to fail if the path is over a certain length.

/dale