From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 10 14:42:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA12015 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu (scheme.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA12010 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:42:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 17304 invoked by uid 27268); 10 Oct 1997 21:34:08 -0000 Date: 10 Oct 1997 21:34:08 -0000 Message-ID: <19971010213408.17303.qmail@scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu> From: Jason Alan Nordwick MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cp behavior X-Mailer: VM 6.32 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What is the "proper" behavior for cp in this case: I have a skeleton directory for starting new hacks dr-xr-xr-x 2 nordwick nordwick 512 Jun 26 03:03 skel/ cp -R skel newhack fails because the skel directory does not have write permission so newhack/ is created without write permission, and then the files in skel cannot be copied to newhack/ shouldnt this work ? Who would i talk to about fixing it ? (on 2.2) jay -- Join the FreeBSD Revolution! mailto:nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu http://xcf.berkeley.edu/~nordwick