[SunHELP] Killing default services, fixing tar, and installin g pkg's ...

[Jim Pennino]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:38:57PM -0700, Donaldson, Mark wrote:
> Easiest way to shutdown services is the classic way, comment the unneeded
> services from /etc/inetd.conf then HUP the inetd daemon.
> 
> I've been using Sun's tar since v2.5 and I've never had a problem with it.
> A long time ago it had a 2G limit but that's no longer a problem.
> 
> -M
> 

Sun's tar still seems to have problems with long paths. The only time I
have seen this is unpacking MySQL sources.

Installing GNU tar (from source or the Software Companion CD) fixes that.

-- 
Jim Pennino