On Friday 22 August 2003 14:46, Tom Badran wrote: > On Friday 22 Aug 2003 12:37, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > Which is exactly what i was saying, except i dont know how to make a > > > tarball that retains all file permissions/attributes etc.. > > > > Those should be retained by default. Make a directory with a few files > > with odd permissions, tar it, untar it, and see what happens. > > Ahh, i had tried this already, but i just did the untar as root and it > works. If you extract a tarball as user it seems to set all file ownerships > to user.user instead of owner.group
Yes. see 'man tar'. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
