tar failure

[Richard Riley]

OK. I have finally found an error message I understand, but still don't
understand why or how to fix.

When I ran the tar command manually (as root) insuring an output file
size larger than 2GB, I actually got an error message of "File size
limit exceeded".
My confusion is when I run "ulimit -a" it shows file size "unlimited".
When I run this command on the NFS server I am writing the file to it
also shows "unlimited".  I checked the ulimit.conf file in /etc/security
and it also shows file size is set to "unlimited".  What is more
confusing is this had been working fine for multiple weeks creating a
file over 4.5GB in size.
The only thing that has caused any changes on either machine is running
"up2date -u", but I did not notice anything that I thought could relate
to a file size restriction.
Also, I still have another machine writing files to the NFS server of
over 7.5GB.
Again, DB machine with problem - RHEL 4 - kernel 2.6.9 release 34.0.1
	 NFS machine - RHEL 4 - kernel 2.6.9 release 42.0.8
	Other DB machine - RHEL 4 - kernel 2.6.9 release 34.0.2

Richard

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Any chance your output file is hitting 2Gb or some other magical file
size?
Bill Watson
bill at magicdigits.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ryan
Simpkins
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:57 PM
To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: tar failure

On Wed, April 4, 2007 16:40, Richard Riley wrote:
> I have a nightly backup process that uses tar writing the output to a
> file on an NFS mount.  It had been working fine for weeks and suddenly
> on Tuesday started failing with error code of 141.  Anyone know where
I
> can find out what the error code means.  I have tried a google search
> and looking at tar source code, both to no avail.

SIGPIPE	13	Write on a pipe with no reader, Broken pipe (POSIX)

-Ryan

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