From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 1: 8:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3119F37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 01:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copper.americanisp.net (smtp01.mail.amisp.net [216.38.38.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 677A543E4A for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 01:08:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdq@kuyarov.org) Received: (qmail 8823 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2002 08:08:00 -0000 Received: from 216-38-40-42.ip.amisp.net (HELO server.home.pk) (216.38.40.42) by 0 with SMTP; 9 Jul 2002 08:08:00 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 02:08:26 -0600 From: Peter To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: umask -- tar extracting files with same permissions Message-Id: <20020709020826.4fff7a5f.fbsdq@kuyarov.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, One one machine my name is peter while on another it's peterk -- I have a website [cgi and all] on the peterk one....I tar zcvf that site and uploaded it to the peter one. On the peter one my umask is at 0137 .. I untarred the site...well.....all the files got screwed up...like my cgi's were made unexcetuable, my directories unlistable, world writeable files unwriteable, etc. -- what am I doing wrong? I would like to be able to move files from one computer to another retaining permissions [chmod] [owner/group I don't care - whoever untars it]. Can someone please explain to me how this works and what I'm doing wrong/right/what should I be doing? Thanks Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message