Hi Scot, Thanks for your advice On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 12:30, Scot L. Harris wrote: > 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. Sorry, I have not explained clear in my first posting of this subject. I want to untar and paste all files to the same folder/directory /home/satimis/evolution/local/ as I created the tarball with full path (same path) I can untar the tarball but not as my desire Thanks B.Regards Stephen > 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
