[FC5] Tar strangeness
M.Lewis
cajun at cajuninc.com
Sun May 14 05:15:56 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 20:18, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Do an 'ls -l /home/cajun/mail' before and after the tar run to
>>>> see if tar is correct. Does new mail deliver directly to this
>>>> mailbox?
>>> Ok, will try this Les. Thanks. Yes, mail delivers directly to this mailbox.
>>>
>> Then you'll need to stop the mta. But I've been looking at that
>> particular error from amanda for several years. Knowing whats doing it,
>> to me its a shrug because fetchmail (at home) is running on a 180 second
>> cycle.
>
> As long as the file is just growing, tar should collect whatever
> it saw at first to keep the length in the header consistent with
> the data in the tar copy so it shouldn't cause a problem. The
> error message is just a warning.
I would tend to agree with all Les. However, in this case, tar bailed
out of the backup. No tar file was written at all.
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