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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:57:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Tar does not preserve sticky bit
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970930175615.400E-100000@cyrus.watson.org>

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tar -cvpf - /homec | tar -xvpf -

Did not preserve the sticky bit on a tmp directory.  Is there a way to
force tar to preserve that bit, or is that no included by the "preserve
permissions" flag? :)

Thanks


  Robert N Watson 

Junior, Logic+Computation, Carnegie Mellon University  http://www.cmu.edu/
Network Administrator, SafePort Network Services  http://www.safeport.com/
robert@fledge.watson.org rwatson@safeport.com http://www.watson.org/~robert/




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