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I've got Solaris 9.
I've read that I can do a login script for each individual user with the .postlogin file, but is there not a way to set up something like that from a group-membership level?
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I was able to figure it out. Problem was user behind the keyboard. :D

Getting ready for Sarbanes Oxley and I was told that I need to create a cron.allow file for the box so that only specified users can create cron jobs. That was easy enough, and I put in all the...

We are not a huge shop -- 1 production V440 and one devel 450 box. Our backup strategy in a nutshell is if the system goes completely down, we reinstall the OS and then restore from tape the folders...

I'm pulling a 1MB file from tape using tar. It's a 300GB DLT tape and it does have a lot of files on it because it's go the entire OS and Oracle RMAN files and 3000 table exports, but it's taking 2-3...

I really appreciate your assistance. Although some people will be upset that I can't restore their table, I'm just glad to find out now, instead of weeks down the road. For the time being, I'm going...

I think I understand what you are looking for.
The way I read the script and from what the previous unix guy told me, there should be 3 sections on the tape:
1) The password file, and the oracle...

I don't know if this makes a difference, but I believe I forgot to mention was OS and level I was using.
I'm using Sun Solaris. 2.9

Thank you so much for replying and trying to help me out.

I tried the command you provided. I did them exactly in the order you provided. However, I still got the same error:
tar: blocksize = 0...

I'm sorry. I did not get a checksum error:
I just got
tar: blocksize = 0

That's it'. It happens right away, and it did not restore the file.

My notes from the previous Unix admin told me to do that because, there was a previous tar done before that. I did not include it in the post.

The first tar in the script was
tar cvf /dev/rmt/0n...

I was recently given the responsibility of the unix box at our work. Without much training, I now have to go back and restore a file from tape. I'm having some trouble with it. I'm getting an error...