[wplug] tar error

[Frank W. Holden Jr.]

Hi Henry... You could try this fake out and then fix it all later... 
Make a directory in your account called test and then make inside this 
directory a directory called etc and a directory called anything. Put 
the file in the anything directory and untar it there... When it wants 
to go up the one directory and go into etc then the etc directory will 
be there for it to find. BUT, this has to be done 2 directories deeper 
so it can make the etc directory inside your account home where you 
have permissions...

Just a though!
Frank


Henry Umansky wrote:
> I made a mistake when I tarred up a directory, I added the '..' before
> the directory name.  Now when I try to untar it, I get the following
> error (I only showed the last 10 or so lines, similar error different
> filename):
> 
> ../etc/rndc.conf.rpmsave
> tar: ../etc/rndc.conf.rpmsave: Member name contains `..'
> ../etc/lynx.cfg.ja
> tar: ../etc/lynx.cfg.ja: Member name contains `..'
> ../etc/gshadow.lock
> tar: ../etc/gshadow.lock: Member name contains `..'
> ../etc/ssh_random_seed
> tar: ../etc/ssh_random_seed: Member name contains `..'
> ../etc/group.lock
> tar: ../etc/group.lock: Member name contains `..'
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> [henry at localhost tmp]$ 
> 
> How would I fix this problem???
> 
> -Henry
> 
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