[FC5] Tar strangeness

[M.Lewis]

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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