tar bug?

[Vincent L]

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!

[anyweb]

if you do

Code:

file filename

 

what is the output ?

[Vincent L]

the error message is this

 



 

this is happen once

[Dungeon-Dave]

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?