im running rhel 4 this is only happened once
i create a archive file using tar:
tar -cvf <file>
then the tar was successfuly create the file but in time when i issue the command ls -l the output od the file was
-rwsrwsrwt 1 root root 0 jan 1 1970 whfbhsdvbgfjsdbvkbhbfshvbashbvua???????????????sdfsdg???????
please help about this!
thnx!
the error message is this
this is happen once
Quote:i create a archive file using tar:
tar -cvf <file></file>
You don't say *what* you're creating the file with - the contents. The command should read something like:
tar cvf homedirs.tar /home
I'm guessing you've created a tarfile containing the current directory, which contains the tarfile itself, which... etc.
An alternative thought: can you run
tar tf FILENAME to look at the contents of the file?