James Carlson wrote > Justin Banks wrote: > > When untarring a tarball that was created with absolute paths, the tar > > command should prepend a . to all pathnames unless specifically told not > > to in order to keep the command from potentially clobbering all system > > files. See > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=1223447 > > which has been around since '05 > > Did you try "gtar" instead?
It's not for me, it's for my end-user customers. I can ask/recommend that they use GNU tar, but they may not have it installed and may not want to (or be unable to for administrative reasons). -justinb -- Justin Banks BakBone Software just...@bakbone.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code