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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