On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:34:03AM -0800, alan brown wrote: > I have the newest version of cpio (as confirmed by apt-get). > > I'm trying to install oracle. I've downloaded the 3 huge files > (xxx.cpio.gz). I copied them onto CD under windows XP and then copied > them onto my linux box (because Oracle's website wouldn't work with > Konquerer or Mozilla!). I ran gunzip on them successfully (which > implied to me that the files were not corrupted) and then tried to run > > cpio -idmv <filename> > > On each of the unzipped files. However, the command simply hangs. I've > left it alone for 15 minutes (as these files are hundreds of megabytes > in size) but it just remains hung. I then ran vmstat to see if the cpu > was busy doing something but it was saying the cpu was completely idle. > > Am I right in assuming that the files are not corrupted because I could > unzip them? Shouldn't cpio be telling me things that it's doing as it > does them (as I set the 'verbose' flag)? > > I looked at the man page for cpio and I seem to be doing the right > things.
I think cpio tries to read/write to/from standard input/output, so you need to do something like cpio -idmv * < archivename or possibly cpio -idmv -I archivename * Also if the files are stored in the archive with absolute pathnames (like /usr/bin/foo) cpio will try to extract the file foo to /usr/bin. This will (a) fail if you're not root and (b) if you are root you're a very trusting root (IMO). I'd therefore recommend cpio -idmv --no-absolute-filenames * < archivename to extract into a directory tree under the current directory. I think your version is trying to extract the file filename from an archive which it is waiting for you to type in at the keyboard!!! Don't give up! cpio is a dinosaur and therefore has a tendency to act weird at you. It always buggers me about on the rare occasions I use it, but it does work eventually. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
