Ted Harding wrote:
You may, therefore, get a clue by have a look at what's inside.
Try, in the first place,
tar tzvf trx-090302.tgz tar tzvf trx-100302.tgz
and compare it with what it should be.
Ted: It seems to start off then stop with "unexpected EOF" message thusly: tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I just can't see anything unusual in the place it stops each time, midway in a directory. Thanks, Jenny.
Try, in the first place,
tar tzvf trx-090302.tgz tar tzvf trx-100302.tgz and compare it with what it should be.
Ted: It seems to start off then stop with "unexpected EOF" message thusly: tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
This again would tend to point to something going awry with the STDOUT of the tar. Maybe there's a cap on how much cron will let child processes write to stdout? Try removing the 'v' in the script? Any error messages will still be printed, afterall.
P.
On 11-Mar-02 Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Ted Harding wrote:
You may, therefore, get a clue by have a look at what's inside.
Try, in the first place,
tar tzvf trx-090302.tgz tar tzvf trx-100302.tgz
and compare it with what it should be.
Ted: It seems to start off then stop with "unexpected EOF" message thusly: tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I just can't see anything unusual in the place it stops each time, midway in a directory.
Hi Jenny, This means that the tar-archiving operation is coming to a halt after writing a fixed number of bytes (14211 ), and before it has finished its job.
I don't know why that might happen, and only in cron jobs, though the generic explanation is "something's broken".
Maybe another cron job has (somehow) the effect of killing that one.
I'll try to think about it a bit more; if I get any ideas I'll follow up.
Best wishes, Ted.
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