"getting the following error while using the gnu tar"

[Belinda Dermody]

sh: /usr/local/bin/tar: Execute permission denied.

I download and swinstall the tar package from the archive site.

Yes the permission of the /usr/local/bin/tar is 755.

[steven Burgess_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi

Your download may be corrupt, did you ftp straight to your unix server or from your pc/workstation to your server ? did you binary ftp ?

HTH

Steve

[Helen French]

Did you download the right version of GNU tar? The normal permission for /usr/local/bin/tar is 555 and bin:bin.

Check 'file /usr/local/bin/tar' output and see if you have the right version for your OS (11.00, 10.20)

[Belinda Dermody]

Download had no errors going to my PC and I shuttle the file to the HP box where binary is the default. I might try the download again

[Brian Bergstrand]

The file may have been corrupted.

What is the output of :

file /usr/local/bin/tar

If it's not PA/Elf executable, then the file is corrupted.

HTH.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi James,

Simple question:

What are the perms on the dir /usr/local/bin?
Does it have execute permission?

Rgds,
Jeff

[Belinda Dermody]

So here are all the obvious answer. I just finished downloading it again and shuttling over to my K200 box which is running 11.0 the other system was running 11i, but still getting the same permission error.



tar: ELF-32 executable object file

drwxrwxrwx 10 root bin 9216 Sep 25 15:16 bin

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 420204 Jun 5 2002 tar

[Jeff Schussele]

OK, more questions...

Did you install the dependencies - gettext & libiconv?

Also, note the following from the gtar README...

Installation hints
------------------

Here are a few hints which might help installing `tar' on some systems.

* gzip and bzip2.

GNU tar uses the gzip and bzip2 programs to read and write compressed
archives. If you don't have these programs already, you need to
install them. Their sources can be found at:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/

So, is gzip in your search path & is it's perms set OK?

Rgds,
Jeff

[Brian Bergstrand]

If it's a PA 2.0 object file, it will not execute on a PA 1.0 CPU. I believe the lower K series (100, 200, 400) use PA 1.0 CPU's.

HTH.

[Belinda Dermody]

I went out to the sybase site and they had the gnu-tar binary for HP and I download that and the problem disappeared..

Thanks for all the help