[hobbit] AIX clientupdate problem

[martin roby]

Jay,

 Scp should work on the tar file. Because you get the message about
the unexpected end of the tar file it must be in binary format and you
must have some of the file. Check the original source machine using
tar -tf filename. If it is compressed, uncompress it first to
eliminate any confusion. If it works on the source machine, check the
sizes of the file on the source machine and the destination. ( ls -l
or du -sk filename  ) If the sizes are different check for a full
filesystem using df -k and check the permissions in the directory
where you are sending the file.

If you can't get it run scp with the -v option and email me the results.


Regards,
martin roby


On 4/24/07, Jay Brislin <brislin at bc.edu> wrote:
> 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.
> >
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