unable to open, chown tgz file

[sonun]

when I try to as root do,
# gunzip < mysql-3.23.49.tar.gz | tar xvf -
mysql-3.23.49/
tar: mysql-3.23.49/: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied
mysql-3.23.49/Makefile.in
tar: mysql-3.23.49/Makefile.in: Cannot open: No such file or directory
mysql-3.23.49/README
tar: mysql-3.23.49/README: Cannot open: No such file or directory
mysql-3.23.49/stamp-h.in
tar: mysql-3.23.49/stamp-h.in: Cannot open: No such file or directory
mysql-3.23.49/Makefile.am
tar: mysql-3.23.49/Makefile.am: Cannot open: No such file or directory
mysql-3.23.49/acconfig.h
tar: mysql-3.23.49/acconfig.h: Cannot open: No such file or directory
mysql-3.23.49/acinclude.m4
tar: mysql-3.23.49/acinclude.m4: Cannot open: No such file or directory
mysql-3.23.49/aclocal.m4

The file however is owned by someone else. But even it doesnt even let me chown the file to root as root. I can extract the tgz file as the user though. But I thought since it was a install I should do it as root. Now that we have come so far anybody know what decided whats to be installed as root and as normal user.

Thanks.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,





Try just doing the simple one-liner :





# tar zxvf mysql-3.23.49.tar.gz





(the z filters via gunzip)





Regards

 

[bluedevils]

you could always su to be the user then chown it? The who owns the install directory?

 

[sonun]

For,
# tar zxvf mysql-3.23.49-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz, I get
mysql-3.23.49-pc-linux-gnu-i686/
mysql-3.23.49-pc-linux-gnu-i686/include/
mysql-3.23.49-pc-linux-gnu-i686/include/my_no_pthread.h
tar: mysql-3.23.49-pc-linux-gnu-i686/include/my_no_pthread.h: Cannot change ownership to uid 202, gid 1004: Operation not permitted
mysql-3.23.49-pc-linux-gnu-i686/include/config.h
tar: mysql-3.23.49-pc-linux-gnu-i686/include/config.h: Cannot change ownership to uid 202, gid 1004: Operation not permitted
mysql-3.23.49-pc-linux-gnu-i686/include/mysys_err.h
tar: mysql-3.23.49-pc-linux-gnu-i686/include/mysys_err.h: Cannot change ownership to uid 202, gid 1004: Operation not permitted

I did su and then tried to chown it. But even then it wasnt good enough.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Maybe the immutable attribute is set ? You could try a recursive chattr :

# cd mysql-3.23.49-pc-linux-gnu-i686
# chattr -i -R *
# chown -R userid.groupid *

Otherwise, if you are on redhat why not just grab the rpms -->

http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html

Regards

 

[sonun]

Yeah, I guess I will stick with the RPM's as when I tried to #chattr -i -R *, I get,
Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on tests/table_types.pl
chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on tests/udf_test
chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on tests/udf_test.res
Btw if I use RPM's which of the followin steps do I skip ??
The mysql link you kindly provided says if I use source files then I ,

shell> groupadd mysql
shell> useradd -g mysql mysql
shell> gunzip < mysql-VERSION.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
shell> cd mysql-VERSION
shell> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
shell> make
shell> make install
shell> scripts/mysql_install_db
shell> chown -R root /usr/local/mysql
shell> chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var
shell> chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql
shell> cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
shell> /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
or
shell> /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &
if you are running MySQL 4.x.

If I use RPMS, then I,
shell> rpm --rebuild MySQL-VERSION.src.rpm

Thanks a bunch.