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jonathan_239725
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Apr 05, 2017

Error every time I load a tar ball as a iRulesLX workspace

I keep receiving a "Data Input Error: Error: tar file is not in correct format. Expected to find directories extensions and rules" error every time I load a .tgz to create a new iRulesLX workspace. ...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
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Jul 23, 2017

I believe you saw the following error message in /var/log/ltm:

Jul 24 14:06:05 ltm1212 err tmsh[22884]: 01420006:3: Error: tar file is not in correct format. Expected to find directories extensions and rules

This happens when the tar file is created starting from a different directory. An archive file (

tgz
; the extension can also be 
tar.gz
) must start from . (dot) under the workspace directory. e.g.,

 tar ztvf sat.tgz
drwsrwsrwx user/group        0 2017-07-24 12:57 ./
drwsrwsrwx user/group        0 2017-07-24 13:56 extensions/
drwsrwsrwx user/group        0 2017-07-24 13:54 extensions/MyEXT2/
-rwSrwSrw- user/group      198 2017-07-24 13:07 extensions/MyEXT2/index.js
-rwSrwSrw- user/group      198 2017-07-24 13:54 extensions/MyEXT2/index.js
-rwSrwSrw- user/group      197 2017-07-24 13:06 extensions/MyEXT2/index.js~
....

The one below is invalid as it includes the workspace directory (here MyWS2):

C:\temp\MyWS>tar ztvf sat2.tar.gz 
drwsrwsrwx user/group        0 2017-07-24 12:57 MyWS2/
drwsrwsrwx user/group        0 2017-07-24 13:56 MyWS2/extensions/
drwsrwsrwx user/group        0 2017-07-24 13:54 MyWS2/extensions/MyEXT2/
-rwSrwSrw- user/group      198 2017-07-24 13:07 MyWS2/extensions/MyEXT2/index.js
-rwSrwSrw- user/group      198 2017-07-24 13:54 MyWS2/extensions/MyEXT2/index.js

I hope this would help.