tar.extract events

12/08/2023 Contributors

tar.extract.failure

Severity: ERROR
Description: This message occurs during the process of extracting a TAR archive, when an error while processing a particular entry causes the extraction of the archive to fail.
Corrective Action: (None).
Syslog Message: Failure while extracting file (%d): '%s' %s.
Parameters: type (INT): Type identifier of the TAR archive entry being processed when the error was encountered. Type identifiers and corresponding file types are as follows: 48 = Regular file, 49 = Hard link, 50 = Symbolic link, 51 = Character device, 52 = Block device, 53 = Directory, 54 = FIFO special file, 55 = Reserved.
path (STRING): Relative path of the TAR archive entry being processed when the error was encountered.
errstr (STRING): Error string providing more information about the error that caused the extraction process to fail.

Severity: INFORMATIONAL
Description: This message occurs when a TAR archive has been successfully extracted.
Corrective Action: (None).
Syslog Message: Completed extracting %s.
Parameters: path (STRING): Path to the TAR archive that has been successfully extracted.

Severity: ERROR
Description: This message occurs during the process of extracting a TAR archive, when the system discovers an entry that has an unsupported type identifier.
Corrective Action: (None).
Syslog Message: File: %s has unhandled file type: %d.
Parameters: path (STRING): Relative path of this entry of the TAR archive.
type (INT): Type code of this entry of the TAR archive. Type identifiers and corresponding file types are as follows: 48 = Regular file, 49 = Hard link, 50 = Symbolic link, 51 = Character device, 52 = Block device, 53 = Directory, 54 = FIFO special file, 55 = Reserved.