Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aglew From: aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Consistency checking scripts... Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 03:26:28 GMT Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Lines: 19 A while back I posted a list of a number of consistency checking scripts, for use both by system administrators and regular users. To this list, let me add another, for regular users: Ensure that none of the relative pathnames below your working directories ($HOME, etc.) exceed, say, 95 characters in length - because tar has a limit at 100 characters, and cpio has a limit at 128 characters (on my SUN, at least). It's a real pain having to tar subdirectories and/or rename files when trying to back off all of a user's stuff (in this case, I'm the user) to tape. Grumble... -- Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]