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Old 09-25-2012
tar file help and uid guid?
when I executed tar xvf jre-7u7-soloris-i586.tar.gz it created the last entry with user as 10 and group as 143. When I execute the cd to the jrel directory I get directory not found error. Not sure why this is happening. I am in the root account just trying to install Java Enterprise.


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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47524664 Sep 25 11:23 jre-7u7solaris i586.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x   6 10       143           12 Aug 29 01:50 jre1.7.0_07

so why is the uid set 6 and what does that mean and why is guid set to 143.
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Old 09-25-2012
Those were the values for uid and gid on the original file when it was tar-red.

uid/gid's are numbers, and get translated by the system as they are encountered. If there is no gid 143 on the system unpacking the tar archive, then the number shows up instead.
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Old 09-25-2012
it's jre1, as in one, not jrel, as in ell.
 
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