thanks and next problem: how to chown root ?

[Enoch Wu]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Wuttke Joachim wrote:

> Thanks to Reini, Harold and George for their help.
> Using IE instead of Netscape solved the problem with bunzip2.
> 
> tar xf ... worked well, with one exception:
> tar xf xfree...devel.tar reported error "Cannot open: No such file or directory"
> when it tried to install usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver and ../xsm (are these files or links ?).
> 
> Is this serious ?

No. If you don't like to see the error message, you can run it from a
script:

----cut here-------

#!/bin/sh
bunzip2 xfree86-4.0.3-devel.tar.bz2
tar xvf xfree86-4.0.3-devel.tar > inst-devel.log 2>&1
# end of script.

----cut here--------

Check the inst-devel.log for "Permission denied" and "Delayed exit from
tar error..." 

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