Re: [Bug-tar] rmt tar hangs

[Joerg Schilling]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
> > Can you do an "strace" or "truss" on the processes that
> > are hanging?  That might help figure out what's going on.
>
> FWIW, this rmt can be debugged much more easily.  Running
>
>   tar --rmt-command="/etc/rmt --debug=11 --debug-file=/tmp/rmt.log"
>
> will produce, on the remote machine, the file named /tmp/rmt.log
> with a detailed transcript of the interaction between tar and rmt.

Are you aware of the fact that /etc/rmt is a protocol and that this protocol 
neither supports the options --debug=11 nor --debug-file=/tmp/rmt.log?

Your advise may only work in case that the rmt program at the remote side was 
replaced by the GNU variant.

Jörg

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