The tarball is trying to set the time attibutes to file(s), and you don't have permission to set them. Strange, because you say the file has user-specific permissions. I also have this problem. Running the tar command in root has always worked for me, but it failed for this guy (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/unpack-.tar.gz2-cannot-utime-....-error-435555/). I do not know what exactly his "guru" meant by "not to execute commands in FAT partitions (symb. links)".
I ran "tar --atime-preserve -xvvf" on a tar.bz2 with permissions "rwxrwx---", but it still gave the utime error. "--atime-preserve" is supposed to tell the tar command "don’t change access times on dumped files". Another strange thing is that the tarball gets unwrapped, regardless of the error! Anirudh R "There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical." 2009/6/20 Saifi Khan <[email protected]>: > cannot utime: Operation not permitted ------------------------------------ http://twincling.org/ http://twitter.com/twincling ---------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twincling/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twincling/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
