The Iron Yuppie

Another error post...

Saw a lot of this error when I was trying to update my home server.

usage: tar -{txru}[cevfbmopwBHLPX014578] [tapefile] [blocksize] file1 file2...
usage: tar -{txru}[cevfbmopwBHLPX014578] [tapefile] [blocksize] file1 file2...
usage: tar -{txru}[cevfbmopwBHLPX014578] [tapefile] [blocksize] file1 file2...
usage: tar -{txru}[cevfbmopwBHLPX014578] [tapefile] [blocksize] file1 file2...
pkg_add(bash-current-bin): unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a package?

This page pointed me at a solution: http://www.interix.com/tools/printable.aspx?m=7093&mpage=2

sh pkg-current-bin25.sh clobber

However, I was still throwing errors...

cp: cannot open '/bin/tar-0': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/bin/ftp-0': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/bin/pax-0': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/usr/share/man/cat1/ftp.1-0': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/usr/share/man/cat1/tar.1-0': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/usr/share/man/cat1/pax.1-0': Permission denied

Problem ended up being that these files did not have the group write set. Solution:

chmod g+s /bin/*

Problem solved!

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