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Bug and Fix for tar 1.13


From: Jerry G. Kilpatrick II
Subject: Bug and Fix for tar 1.13
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:19:01 -0800 (PST)

I've ran into this problem on Slackware 8.0, Redhat 6.2/7.0/7.2,
SuSE 7.2 and Dynix/ptx 4.6.1

It's a problem with tar-ing to a remote system, (ie. -f backup:asdf.tar)

I'm not quite sure how this can be this broken and thought you guys may
want to make a .14 with this fix.

I don't know much about making patches or C for that matter, but I'll tell
you guys what fixes the problem and let you take care of the nitty gritty.

In rtapelib.c straight out of the 1.13 tarball, on lines 458 and 461 both
lines reads

execl (remote_shell, remote_shell_basename, remote_host, 

After doing some stracing I noticed it was calling rsh but the command was
truncated, I modified these lines to look like:

execl (remote_shell, remote_host,

And on all systems it has fixed my problem and allows me to tar to a
remote machine with no problem.  

Let me know if there is any questions I can answer for you.

Thanks,

Jerry Kilpatrick


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