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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to create a TAR File in a Custom Destination Directory? Post 302895829 by Corona688 on Wednesday 2nd of April 2014 03:26:01 PM
Old 04-02-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ariean
If i do it your way with out using the -C /tmp, i see 2 issues.

1) After creating the tar file i did tar -zxvf FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml.tgz, it is creating the subdirectories /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri which i don't want to create, i just want to unzip & untar the file, in which ever directory i am in.
It does that either way. This is normal behavior.

Quote:
2) why is it removing leading / from member names, is this an error?
This is standard behavior for GNU tar. It assumes that you don't necessarily want to overwrite /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri/filename every time you extract the tar -- you want to extract it in the current folder, or something given by -C. If it stored the absolute path, that'd override everything, so it strips the first / off.

I believe this is what you want:

Code:
tar -cvzf /tmp/FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml.tgz -C /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri FCBTEXAS_20130930_v2.xml

This tells it to chdir into /var/sftp/home/archive/rquadri before doing anything. It will still create the tar in /tmp/ because that was given an absolute path.
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sftp-server

SFTP-SERVER(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    SFTP-SERVER(8)

NAME

     sftp-server -- SFTP server subsystem

SYNOPSIS

     sftp-server [-ehR] [-d start_directory] [-f log_facility] [-l log_level] [-u umask]

DESCRIPTION

     sftp-server is a program that speaks the server side of SFTP protocol to stdout and expects client requests from stdin.  sftp-server is not
     intended to be called directly, but from sshd(8) using the Subsystem option.

     Command-line flags to sftp-server should be specified in the Subsystem declaration.  See sshd_config(5) for more information.

     Valid options are:

     -d start_directory
	     specifies an alternate starting directory for users.  The pathname may contain the following tokens that are expanded at runtime: %%
	     is replaced by a literal '%', %h is replaced by the home directory of the user being authenticated, and %u is replaced by the user-
	     name of that user.  The default is to use the user's home directory.  This option is useful in conjunction with the sshd_config(5)
	     ChrootDirectory option.

     -e      Causes sftp-server to print logging information to stderr instead of syslog for debugging.

     -f log_facility
	     Specifies the facility code that is used when logging messages from sftp-server.  The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH,
	     LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2, LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7.  The default is AUTH.

     -h      Displays sftp-server usage information.

     -l log_level
	     Specifies which messages will be logged by sftp-server.  The possible values are: QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1,
	     DEBUG2, and DEBUG3.  INFO and VERBOSE log transactions that sftp-server performs on behalf of the client.	DEBUG and DEBUG1 are
	     equivalent.  DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output.  The default is ERROR.

     -R      Places this instance of sftp-server into a read-only mode.  Attempts to open files for writing, as well as other operations that
	     change the state of the filesystem, will be denied.

     -u umask
	     Sets an explicit umask(2) to be applied to newly-created files and directories, instead of the user's default mask.

     For logging to work, sftp-server must be able to access /dev/log.	Use of sftp-server in a chroot configuration therefore requires that
     syslogd(8) establish a logging socket inside the chroot directory.

SEE ALSO

     sftp(1), ssh(1), sshd_config(5), sshd(8)

     T. Ylonen and S. Lehtinen, SSH File Transfer Protocol, draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-02.txt, October 2001, work in progress material.

HISTORY

     sftp-server first appeared in OpenBSD 2.8.

AUTHORS

     Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>

BSD
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