[hobbit] some progress on AIX clientupdate problem

[Jay Brislin]

I fixed it with an ugly hack but it works. I edited the clientupdate.c on line 200 to include the path of the 
GNU tar ( /opt/freeware/bin/tar on AIX ) for the tar command and remade the client.
The AIX client is now updating properly.


Galen Johnson wrote:
> Sounds like it's trying to untar a compressed (gz) file which standard tar can't handle...might be better if a TGZ command could be defined that defaults to tar -zxf...otherwise use 'gzip -dc FILE | tar xf -'
> 
> Of course, this is presuming my supposition is correct.
> 
> =G= 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Brislin [mailto:brislin at bc.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:46 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] some progress on AIX clientupdate problem
> 
> I replaced the AIX tar executable with a version of GNU tar and the clientupdate was successful.
> Since I can't really do that on our other AIX systems I just added the PATH to the GNU tar first in the hobbit .profile but unfortunately that doesn't work.
> If we could redefine where clientupdate gets the "tar" executable from I think this problem would be solved.
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