tar error messages

[johndrake]

Hi All,

I've written a script that will search for the word
"Error" in a logfile that was created when the system performed a backup using the tar command. I am trying to
create a list of error messages for my script to look for
in the logfile. Does anyone know what error messages tar
generates so that I can created a comprehensive listing of
strings to search for?

Thank you,

Joe

 

[dobbyn]

Try this to display the message catalog for the tar command:

dspcat tar.cat

 

[zaxxon]

hi,

why not check the tar-backup job itself with an "echo $?" for each tar you use in the script? if it runs without an error, it will return a value of "0"; other values will be errors. this might be easier than to gather a complete list of possible error messages produced by tar.

markus