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- From: larsonb@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: tar xvfm Permission Denied problem
- Keywords: tar
- Message-ID: <5707@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 04:33:53 GMT
- Sender: larsonb@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
- Distribution: usa
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- We're trying to retrieve a number of files from an 8mm tape using tar
- but are having trouble with permissions. The command we use is:
-
- tar -xvfm /dev/rst1
-
- The files were saved by another organization with the user number of 151
- and we have no such user on our system. We can extract the files that
- have rwxrwxrwx permissions but cannot extract those with rwxrwxr-x
- permissions--even when logged in as root. The error message is:
- Permission Denied.
- A file is created but contains 0 bytes. Then tar terminates.
-
- Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-
-
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- Ben Larson, Captain, USAF
- USSTRATCOM/J625DWG
- Email: larsonb@cs.nps.navy.mil
-