Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 11:34:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe Charnier) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mtree Message-ID: <199506151834.LAA03091@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199506151348.PAA08969@lirmm.lirmm.fr> from "Philippe Charnier" at Jun 15, 95 03:48:05 pm
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>
> hello,
>
> I tried the following:
>
> rm -rf /usr/games
> mtree -deU -f /usr/src/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /usr
>
> It was not able to create /usr/games/hide because it didn't create dir
> /usr/games first. I tried with -p /an-empty-dir (make hierarchy DESTDIR=...)
> and it worked as expected.
I don't see how it could have possible attempted to create /usr/games/hide
before creating /usr/games:
/set type=dir uname=games gname=bin mode=0700
games uname=bin mode=0755
hide
..
..
Perhaps you where not running this as root???? Mtree gets pretty sick
if not run as root!!!
> It also worked fine with:
> mkdir /usr/games
> mtree -deU -f /usr/src/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /usr
>
> Can someone explain me why it fails in the first case?
Only thing I can think of is non-root trying to run this, and games gets
created mode 0700 which stops you as a normal user from creating any
dirs under it.
--
Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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