GNU Tar

[Regina Mitchell]

I'm trying to install third party software FTPS Wrapper. I have installed GNU Tar as a required but I am still having problems with the FTP Wrapper install. Per the Vendor I need to do the following:
It looks like GNU tar is not the default "tar" in the path. Can you set your path to have gnutar in front of standard tar? If that doesn't work, try editing the secureftp installer and change the order of the PATH variable to reflect GNU tar's loaction first.

How do I do put gnutar in front of standard tar? OS is HPUX11.i.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom Regina,

You can bypass the PATH changes.

tarpath=$(whence tar)
mv $tarpath $tarpath.arch
ls -s $tarpath

What I am doing is finding the old tar, renaming it and putting a soft link from what was the old tar to the new tar.

This methodology may break tar scripts.

So

whence tar
echo $PATH
re-arrange the PATH variable, usually set in /etc/profile and or .profile to put the gnu tar in front of the old tar.

SEP

[DCE]

You modify your path statement in either /etc/PATH or in your local .profile so that the gnutar directory is listed before the directory that contains the HPUX tar (usually /bin)

If you are interested here is the link to download the HP wrapper add -in
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=TCPWRAP

[Regina Mitchell]

Thanks for your replies. I will try them in a short while. Your replies are very similar to what I'm finding out from other sources. Thanks! I'll reply with what worked.

[Regina Mitchell]

I did this in root's .profile:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH:/sbin:/home/root

/usr/local/bin is where gnu tar is

[DCE]

Don't forget to export the PATH variable as well............