Thanks for the replies
From: Dave Sill <de5_at_sws5.ctd.ornl.gov>
From: "J. Pirie Hart" <pirie_at_u.washington.edu>
From: "Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-881-0646" <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
My original message was
> I have the following configuration:
>
> DEC 3000/600
> TLZ06 tape unit
> OSF/1 V3.2 214
>
> When I need to see a tape contents I use 'tar tv' but if I issue a
> command like
>
> tar tv > tar.log
>
> I get an empty output file. When I redirect booth standard ouput and
> standard error the only content of tar.log is
>
> blocksize = 20
>
> Tar does not generate the file list if the stdout/stderr is not a
> terminal. This is very bad, since I need to list some tapes an wanna do it
> using at jobs. Any idea?
Dr Blinn tried it under 3.2C with success. After repeat the tests with
annoter tape my conclusion was that that there was not enough disk space
to generate the list. We are using ADVFS and the filesystem was 98% full
(this disk hold NOAA satelite data, :-p ). After a disk cleaning, I was
able to generate the list again.
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Carlos A M dos Santos - Analista de Sistemas
Universidade Federal de Pelotas - Centro de Pesquisas Meteorologicas
Pelotas, RS, Brasil - e-mail: ufpelrm_at_eu.ansp.br
Received on Thu May 30 1996 - 16:32:33 NZST