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What happens with Shadow
What happens with Shadow file for the first entry, after we run pwconv next time?And another thing: file
And another thing: file pathsI had a file which I had tar'd and gzip'd on a Ubuntu machine which I needed to untar on a Solaris 9 server. Easy enough, done it loads of times. Except this time I got directory checksum error! Some of the paths exceeded 100 characters.
Removing the (relative) root directory brought the paths back under the limit but it is still a real pain in the neck, as now creating the anchoring directory is a manual step in my deployment process. Perhaps there is a neater way around it but my Google-Fu wasn't up to finding it.
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