GPG corruption

[Neil Williams]

On Thursday 10 February 2005 10:22 pm, Bill Broadley wrote:
> This is with [root at csebeo v]# gpg --version

Why as root???? 

> gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.1
>
> I put 12 files into a .tar:
> tar cvzf b.tar bp*

If you use -z, you will get a compressed archive - it could be confusing to 
give this the name .tar which usually refers to an uncompressed archive:
.tar.gz for -z

>
> The resulting file is partially there:
> $ ls -alh b.tar
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         103M Feb 10 14:16 b.tar
>
> Tar seems to think it's valid:
> tar tvf bg-s01-s12.tar

Now you've stopped using -z - what's going on?

> drwxrwxr-x root/root        0 2005-01-28 17:51:28 bpdata/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 36955832 2005-01-16 17:47:40 bpdata/bd.001
>
> Any ideas?

Make absolutely sure what you are doing and use names that help others see 
what you are doing, also avoid using root whenever possible.

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