[CapG]

I have been trying to access this link
http://ftp.irixnet.org/setup/optxeno-mips4.tar.gz
It times out with no response from site ?
Is your server down?

[Raion]

Mirror is ftp.irix.host

I don't have a current FTP server set up because of reasons. It'll return at some point but lots of stuff going on in my personal life and nobody is willing to do the work and do it right, so I'm left to handle this in my limited spare time.

[CapG]

tried the mirror link http://ftp.irix.fun/
it is also unavailable?

[Raion]

Mistyped, sorry. I'm at work so it's easy to brain fart

[CapG]

Thanks for that link http://ftp.irix.fun/ it now works

[CapG]

downloaded optxeno-mips4.tar from the mirror site with a windows machine and transfered to an O2. did the gunzip on the file then tried tar -xf .
This finished with no messages and no results the optxeno-mips4.tar file was all that was in the directory? I tried juxt opening the file and you get a long list of names in a new window -looked ok. I then went back to the windows machine and ran 7zip extraction and got thousands of "dangerous link messages" ignored?
looks like the file is compromised? or maybe something else? I am not sure any thoughts?

[Raion]

You have to specify the file name to tar.

[CapG]

Yes my message was not clear on that point- I specified the resultant file from gunzip(optxeno-mips4.tar) like this
tar -xv optxeno-mips4.tar
the O2 then ran for 4 or 5 minutes before returning to a command prompt with no output or messages. I retried after restart - same result. ?

[robespierre]

Make sure you understand the procedure for extracting tar archives.

If it is gz compressed, then first do

Code:

gunzip optxeno-mips4.tar.gz

Then extract the (now uncompressed) archive using tar:
(if you are not already root, you should use "su" to become root in order to write the files to the /opt directory)

Code:

su
[enter your root password]
tar xfPp optxeno-mips4.tar
logout

[robespierre]

To write any files outside of a user's home directory it is usually necessary to become root. This is just a consequence of the usual permissions policy.
(Exceptions are for /tmp which is normally sticky, world-writable, and other similar things such as the mail and print spools)