[ESS] migrating from windows to linux. I'm sweating!!!
Rodney Sparapani
rsparapa at mcw.edu
Thu May 18 23:52:12 CEST 2006
8rino-Luca Pantani wrote:
> Dear list members,
> put into a directory (/mnt/linwin/....../ess) and run the command
>
> tar -xvf ess-VERSION.tar.gz
>
> receiving a lot of
> "Impossible to do chown a uid 2110 and gid 300. Operation not permitted"
>
> Where am I wrong ?
>
> Thanks to you all for such open source world !!!!
>
> Ottorino-Luca Pantani, Università di Firenze
Hi:
A couple of things. First the docs say that the command is
something else than what you had:
tar -zxf ess-VERSION.tar.gz
Secondly, to get around the owner/group problems, there is
tar --owner=SOMETHING --group=SOMETHING
For more details, try tar --help or man tar.
Rodney
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