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Old 01-23-2008
Question tar command error
Hi,

when i extract a tar file by below command.

tar -xvf /cibs/prod/install/counter_cibs1.0.1.tar

it shown the error as

"tar: COUNTER1.0.1/source/ : Unable to preserve time."


but this error msg is not shown when extract from /cibs/prod/install/ by

tar -xvf counter_cibs1.0.1.tar (or)
tar -xvf /cibs/prod/install/counter_cibs1.0.1.tar

how do resolve this?
# 2  
Old 01-24-2008
This is only my guess but this can have something to do with the filesystem - possibly tar tool cannot set timestamp of the directory/file.
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