I believe you need to drop the second parameter on your untar command. Just put the file name of the tar file after the zxvf options. On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 00:31, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi all folks, > > Ximian Evolution 1.4 > ==================== > I created a tarball on RH8.0 with following steps > > 1) # mkdir /home/satimis/Temp-1 > 2) # tar zcvf /home/satimis/Temp-1/backup_local.tar.gz > /home/satimis/evolution/local/ > > Burnt the tarball with Xcdroat and untared it to Ximian Evolution 1.4 > (same version) but running on RH9.0 with following results > > 1) # tar zxvf /mnt/cdrom/backup_local.tar.gz > /home/satimis/evolution/local/ > tar: /home/satimis/evolution/local: Not found in archive > > 2) # tar zxvf /mnt/cdrom/backup_local.tar.gz /home/satimis/evolution/ > tar: /home/satimis/evolution: Not found in archive > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > Kindly advise what mistake I have committed. Or the tarball must be > untared to the same version of RedHat. > > Thanks in advance. > > B.Regards > Stephen Liu > > > > To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list