From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 10 18:48:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA22939 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from coal.nis.newscorp.com (mxa.newscorp.com [206.15.105.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA22862 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:46:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@multivac.narcissus.net) Received: from multivac.narcissus.net (ts2port32.port.net [207.38.248.160]) by coal.nis.newscorp.com (News Corp SMTP GW 1.1) with SMTP id VAA13862; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:47:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by multivac.narcissus.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA00234; Fri, 10 Oct 97 21:40:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:40:53 -0400 (GMT-0400) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: benedict@echonyc.com To: Jason Alan Nordwick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cp behavior In-Reply-To: <19971010213408.17303.qmail@scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Why not use install(1) instead? On 10 Oct 1997, Jason Alan Nordwick wrote: > > 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 > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."