Running tar -xvzf on SLES 11

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(imported topic written by Bill.Ehardt)

We are looking at using bigfix on our sles servers, and I’ll be the first to admit I’m good on the Windows side, not linux.

I am using a createfile the chmod 755 that file to run the commands in the script.

The problem comes in when I am un-TARing a file. The command works fine when we run it manually but not when bigfix runs it. The command is below:

tar -xvzf /patrol.installation.tar.Z

The commands before and after seem to work fine. I also tried to just run the untar command by itself via:

run tar -xvzf /patrol.installation.tar.Z

but it didn’t work. Am I doing something wrong? I’m assuming it is something simple

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

You probably want something like

run /bin/sh -c

http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=5447

http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=6316

http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=2350

Or you can just run a shell script instead of an ActionScript. Note that there is a pop-up menu in the Take Action Dialog that lets you specify whether you are running ActionScript, AppleScript, or a shell script.