topic Re: tar in Operating System - HP-UX

tar

Marco_163 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:18:20 GMT

Who tell me why I can't tar files as root while I can do that as user?.

Re: tar

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:24:03 GMT

Marco,

that should not happen. Can you explain what you were trying to tar and what happened?
error messages

greetings,

Michael

Re: tar

Eric Antunes — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:24:19 GMT

Hi Marco

What error do you get?

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

Re: tar

Marco_163 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:29:22 GMT

No erros, at all.
First I thought that it's not a tar file.
But, I simply tar that as "normal" user.

Re: tar

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:39:17 GMT

Can you check which tar is being used and give full path to execute the tar command?

$whereis tar
tar: /sbin/tar /usr/bin/tar

sks

Re: tar

Marco_163 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:53:10 GMT

I used tar from /sbin and /usr/bin directory and I received the same result - no error but the file was not tarred.

Re: tar

Muthukumar_5 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:54:42 GMT

Can you check that file as,

$ file
it will informations there.

Find more as,

$ which tar
$ what `which tar`

Try to execute with -v mode tooo.

what are you getting here.
# /usr/bin/tar -xvf

$ /usr/bin/tar -xvf

Re: tar

Marco_163 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 04:57:52 GMT

I tried to use /sbin/tar and /usr/bin/tar - results are the same : no error and no files.

Re: tar

Muthukumar_5 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:44:51 GMT

what do you get for

file

on root and normal users?

what do you get for

tar -y

something unknown option on tar ..? do you get any messages on command line.

Try with verbose mode. Try for other tar file.

As,

normal user

echo hai > /tmp/test.file
tar -cvf /tmp/test.tar /tmp/test.file
mv /tmp/test.file /tmp/test.filenormal

root user
tar -xvf /tmp/test.tar

what are you getting there.

Note: If you give your test and results to forums so that we can help at once. Without that and saying not working no messages will not help to others.

Re: tar

V. Nyga — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:54:45 GMT

Hi Marco,

maybe an alias?

Try 'alias|grep tar'

Volkmar

Re: tar

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:07:43 GMT

Marco,

so far I do not know, what you where trying to do. can you give an exampe?

greetings,

Michael

Re: tar

Marco_163 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:17:53 GMT

Soory,
It was my fault
tar -xvf /test/user9.tar
works

but I wrote
tar -xvf /test/user9.tar /test
and nothing happend.

Re: tar

Geoff Wild — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:46:40 GMT

That is correct - tar only takes a file name or device - not a directory as an option.
(unless use use -C /directory - which performs a chdir).

Rgds...Geoff

Re: tar

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:51:01 GMT

Marco,

check first with tar tvf /test/user9.tar
what is in the archive and if you used absolute or realive path names.
Then select the name of the file you want to extract.
I assume you wanted to extract /test right?

Michael

Re: tar

Muthukumar_5 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:31:50 GMT

We can not use -C option to change directory while extraction there.

It (11.00) is not working as like Linux there.

Linux.

tar -xvf -C

Hp-ux tar is used to get archieve files as like,

tar cvf test.tar -C

And no more warnings / error while using with tar -xvf there. ( Linux is good on this )

You can do this as,

cd ; tar -xvf ;cd -

that is all.