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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:57:44 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@computerstopusa.com>
To:        Andrew Y Ng <ayn@Ngbert.org>
Cc:        Shawn Ramsey <root@luke.cpl.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tar ownerships?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970214165547.209B-100000@luke.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95q.970214175922.14028A-100000@andrew.Ngbert.org>

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> well, u need to specify the '-p' flag to preserver the ownership and
> permisison, imho.
> 
> /ayn
> 

Do you mean such as:

tar cvfzp home.tgz /home/*  ??

I tried this, then extracted it onto a different FBSD machine running
2.1.6. Didnt work. If I extracted it onto the same machine that created
the archive, it works. But it does that withoug the -p option of tar. 







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