I found amd fixed You wont believe -- I wan not in the /etc/group. I was not " guest:*: ' and not in " users:*: " .
WOW! Shouldn't this work if I was ROOT ? On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 3:15 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 08:56:39AM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > For one, MP3 does not compress well -- so does it matter it comes off > > when I do cpio -iv < foo ?? > > > > Why do I need to unzip it 2x?? I see the list if file names when I unzip > > them. > > What do you mean by "unzip it 2x"? All you showed above, *again*, was > the normal cpio extraction command. > > cpio can create an archive including compress-like (-Z) or gzip-like (-z) > compression - read the manual page, please. > > On extracting, it automatically recognizes those formats and > uncompresses them on-the-fly using the right algorithm. You never > need to call unzip, not even once, especially not twice... > > (and it wouldn't help, as the format of zip/unzip is different: > $ unzip testz.cpio > unzip: Unrecognized archive format > $ unzip testZ.zpio > unzip: Failed to open 'testZ.zpio' > ) > > I guess you created the archive with one of cpio's compression options? > > You'll still achieve a bit of compression on top of the audio compression > by mp3, at least with -z (small z), 1% in a quick experiment. -Z, indeed, > increased the size - you probably should avoid that. But if you insist, > you can create a cpio archive without its own compression by using plain > cpio -o (without -z or -Z). > > Regards, > -is
