tar failure

[Ryan Simpkins]

On Wed, April 4, 2007 16:40, Richard Riley wrote:
> I have a nightly backup process that uses tar writing the output to a
> file on an NFS mount.  It had been working fine for weeks and suddenly
> on Tuesday started failing with error code of 141.  Anyone know where I
> can find out what the error code means.  I have tried a google search
> and looking at tar source code, both to no avail.

SIGPIPE	13	Write on a pipe with no reader, Broken pipe (POSIX)

-Ryan