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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!op.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tar bug? Date: 19 Jul 1996 23:32:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4sp5ui$1ft@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4sm2s3$7t0@pelican.unf.edu> 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 caddy@osprey.unf.edu (Cliff Addy) wrote: > We're having a problem when restoring from a tar archive, whether from > tape or file. Access perms for "other" are never restored, they always > end up as no access. This is a major headache, one a recent restore, I > had to hand-set the perms on hundreds of files. Firstly, you should probably use dump/restore in order to backup file systems. (This is my usual plug here. :) Second, tar normally keeps the umask of the invoking user intact, so if your umask prohibits anything for `other', tar will as well. You can override this for GNU tar with the -p option. -- 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. ;-)