From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 27 18:39:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from peppermint.national.com.au (peppermint.national.com.au [203.57.240.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA90137B5CA for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nconedd@peppermint.national.com.au) Received: (from nconedd@localhost) by peppermint.national.com.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id LAA15708; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:37:50 +1000 (EST) From: Enno Davids Message-Id: <200007280137.LAA15708@peppermint.national.com.au> Subject: Re: sendmail question (sorry if this is the wrong list) In-Reply-To: from "Forrest W. Christian" at "Jul 27, 0 06:29:48 pm" To: forrestc@imach.com (Forrest W. Christian) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:37:48 +1000 (EST) Cc: sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au, danp@erinyes.net, pab@purplecat.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | > > This is even better than moving the files separately... | > | > Is it guaranteed not to stuff up permissions/ownerships? | | Guarantee? You've got to be kidding :) | | I think it is LESS LIKELY to do so. Ordinarily this is why us old timers use tar or cpio. Something like this: cd srcdir ; tar -cf - . | (cd destdir ; tar -xvpf - ) Note the use of the 'p' flag to preserve perms/owners/etc. Enno. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message