how can I verify if gzip 1.2.4 patch was installed??

[philipose]

Hi,
We have a gzip version 1.2.4 installed on an AIX 5.2 machine and I suspect the patch has not been applied.

The output of gzip -V is
gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H

How can I verify that? The reason for my suspicion is that when I try to gzip files greater than 2GBs I get the message "Value too large to be stored in data type".

Any suggestions are welcome
Philipose

 

[khalidaaa]

I don't know much about qzip but i know this

The standard file system on AIX has a 2 GB file size limit, regardless of the ulimit setting. One way to enable files larger than the 2 GB limit is to create the file system with the Large File Enabled option. This option can be found through the Add a Journaled File System option of the smit menu.

go to this site and read it for more info:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...c=/com.ibm.itame3.doc_5.1/am51_perftune35.htm

Regards,
Khalid

 

[philipose]

Khalid,
I dont think that we had a limitation on our operating system as I can do an md5sum on a file greater than 2GB. I saw

I saw this here.

http://www.gzip.org/#faq10

For some systems (Solaris 2.6, AIX), you may get the error message "Value too large for defined data type". A complete source tree fixing this problem is available here, thanks to Paul Eggert. For AIX, compile add "-D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_LARGE_FILES -D_LARGE_FILE_API" to the compilation flags.

This may be the reason.
Regards
Zac