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# 1  
Old 03-11-2008
problem with tar
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
# 2  
Old 03-11-2008
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.
# 3  
Old 03-11-2008
I also feel that it seems to be a permission issue

Regards
# 4  
Old 03-11-2008
Many thanks to both for the response.

I will investigate this

cheers
# 5  
Old 03-11-2008
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
# 6  
Old 03-11-2008
Permission to give it a beer.
# 7  
Old 07-31-2008
MySQL I have fround a way around this
I just experienced this issue.

By adding an m to my options I got past this.

This only occurred for me when overwriting files by extracting the tarball. The -m (or m) option tells tar not to 'touch' the files and there by not calling utime to update the timestamp.

hth
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