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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help !! I have run out of inodes !!!! Date: 15 May 1996 21:34:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4ndik8$5dd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4n7lnp$190@emerald.xara.net> <319905CC.41C67EA6@chicago.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sander Temme <sander@Chicago.xs4all.nl> wrote: > However, ever since I did this my news expire doesn't happen anymore. I > suspect some permissions got lost in the tarring/untarring, because it > runs fine as root and I already had to make /var/tmp world-writable. I > don't know what went wrong. By default, tar doesn't extract the exact permissions (even for root, they are still masked by the current umask). You have to specify the -p option to tar to override this. (Depending on root's umask on your system, you can now estimate the amount of damage that happened.) For backing up entire file systems, it's generally more recommendable to rely on dump(8)/restore(8). They do a much better job, including even nice features like interactive restore. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)