First of all I have already asked about this in the scripts/perl forum but the advice I got did not do the trick.

A script I have to use unzips some xxx.tar.gz files and then tries to tar -xvf them. on the tar -xvf I get the following:-

tar: code/sql: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: code/scripts: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: code/maestro: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: code: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted

It was suggested to me that the OS was not happy with the tar file (maybe created under another flavour of UNIX). Accordingly, I have now got the tar files created under the same unix flavour

Linux <hostname> 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 17:03:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Does anyone have any ideas?

regards

It looks like an issue with permissions? Does the directory and the files that you untar belong to the user that invokes the script? Try to use the option --no-overwrite-dir.

Regards,
-Oktawik.

I also feel that it seems to be a permission issue

Regards

Many thanks to both for the response.

I will investigate this

cheers

Hello again,

this is beginning to drive me nuts.

I have opened up the permissions on the target dir (definied via a -C switch in the tar command) and it still moans about utime (tar: code: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted).

Can anyone give me an idea about what permissions are expected for utime to be happy?

BR

Alastair

Permission to give it a beer.

What kind of filesystem are you extracting it on to?