Re: Changing domains

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From: Larry Sherman
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 00:00

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jas@best.com (James A. Squires) wrote:
>larry@computerrific.com (Larry Sherman) writes:
>
>>jas@best.com (James A. Squires) wrote:
>>>tar xvof /tmp/webpages.tar
>>>[ forget the 'o' flag, and UR dead meat mon ]
>
>>I don't think the 'o' flag has any effect unless you're a superuser.
>>I would use the 'p' flag to retain file/dir permissions.
>
>ONLY if the two user's ID numbers are the same.
>
>Try it.

My counter page (www.computerrific.com/cory/) creates an archive of
one dir and five files.  This tar file is created by user 'nobody'.

When the tar file is extracted without the 'p' flag, the resulting
permissions are at the mercy of the users umask.

Try it.  :)

----
Larry Sherman
http://www.computerrific.com/

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From: larry@computerrific.com (Larry Sherman)
Subject: Re: Changing domains
Date: 1996/07/07
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