tar

[Marco_163]

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

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Marco,

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

greetings,

Michael

[Eric Antunes]

Hi Marco

What error do you get?

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

[Marco_163]

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

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

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

[Marco_163]

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

[Muthukumar_5]

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

[Marco_163]

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

[Muthukumar_5]

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.

[V. Nyga]

Hi Marco,

maybe an alias?

Try 'alias|grep tar'

Volkmar

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Marco,

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

greetings,

Michael

[Marco_163]

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

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

[Geoff Wild]

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

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

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

[Muthukumar_5]

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.