looks like you are not using gnutar. on sunos you must use gnutar. AFAIK this is explained in the installation docs. jens On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 05:24 , Alex.Basile@bmsus.com wrote: > Hi, > I've tried serveral times on a Sun0S box but keep getting the > following > error message: tar: directory checksum error. Any ideas? > Thanks, > Alex >