[hobbit] AIX clientupdate problem

[Jay Brislin]

I used "scp" because we have ftp turned off just about everywhere. Which leads me back to - how does 
clientupdate transfer the tar file?

Smith, Jim wrote:
> If you transferred the file via FTP, did you do so in binary mode?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Brislin [mailto:brislin at bc.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 1:35 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] AIX clientupdate problem
> 
> I keep getting these error messages from clientupdate failing on AIX 5.2
> 
> 
> tar: tape read error: unexpected EOF
> 2007-04-23 14:01:09 Upgrade failed, tar exited with status 256
> tar: tape read error: unexpected EOF
> 2007-04-23 14:06:10 Upgrade failed, tar exited with status 256
> tar: tape read error: unexpected EOF
> 2007-04-23 14:11:12 Upgrade failed, tar exited with status 256
> 
> 
> I can't really tell what clientupdate is doing and I haven't been
> successful tracking down the problem.
> Has anyone seen this?
> 
> I do have clientupdate working on a couple of pilot Linux systems and it
> looks great over there.
> 
> Jay
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Jay