From hlarons@ComCAT.COM Thu Jan 28 17:05:21 1999 From: hlarons@ComCAT.COM To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: [SuSE Linux] Permission Errors from tar Archive Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:05:21 -0500 Message-ID: <19990128120521.B216@BeagleDog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4731260634695322469==" --===============4731260634695322469== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just tarred my '/' partition to my /opt partition on HDD 0, removed the=20 HDD (HDD 1) it resided on and replaced it with a new HDD 0 containing a=20 bigger '/' space, and untarred the '/' archive to the new partition.=20 The newly installed '/' fs booted up and runs, but not without a small=20 problem: The permissions for some directories and files were not restored=20 correctly. Problem seems to be write access for "others," where it had=20 been set. Example: /dev/null; some files in /var/spool/mail. Why did this happen, or better, what should I have done during 'tar -c'=20 or 'tar -x' to prevent it? Is this a 'umask' problem? Howard Arons --=20 Powered by SuSE Linux 5.2 -- kernel 2.0.33 Communications by Mutt 0.93.2 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> --===============4731260634695322469==-- From jdaniel@mail.browser.net Thu Jan 28 17:51:13 1999 From: jdaniel@mail.browser.net To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: [SuSE Linux] Installation problem Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:51:13 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <19990128120521.B216@BeagleDog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4400279569552622247==" --===============4400279569552622247== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Help me please! I had installed SuSE 5.3 successfully a few months back and loved it. I bought another hard drive and decided to reinstall SuSE. Only difference from the first time was I didn't have the original floppy that SuSE sent me. I made my own install floppies and then I ran into two problems: 1) The menu's in afterstep were in German ! =20 2) The setup of the window managers and menus (other than KDE's) was not like my intial installation i.e the window managers and menu's etc were nicely preconfigured in my initial install. Not so now! I would rather start from a nice config. and customize it rather than start from scratch.=20 Thanks for all your help! Jacob. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> --===============4400279569552622247==-- From stefan.troeger@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de Thu Jan 28 18:31:53 1999 From: stefan.troeger@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: [SuSE Linux] Re: Permission Errors from tar Archive Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:31:53 +0100 Message-ID: <19990128193153.A2610@one.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> In-Reply-To: <19990128120521.B216@BeagleDog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0076961051591544096==" --===============0076961051591544096== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:05 -0500, Howard Arons wrote: > The permissions for some directories and files were not restored=20 > correctly. Problem seems to be write access for "others," where it had=20 > been set. Example: /dev/null; some files in /var/spool/mail. Just use the -p option when extracting the archive. Then tar will restore the file permissions correctly. Ciao, Stefan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> --===============0076961051591544096==-- From risch@tir.com Fri Jan 29 02:14:07 1999 From: risch@tir.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Installation problem Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:14:07 -0500 Message-ID: <36B1196F.B598BEC2@tir.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0646065512104133645==" --===============0646065512104133645== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Do you have a cd-rom? Can you set up your bios to boot from cd-rom? If you can why not take that approach? Also, did you receive the replacement disk(CD #1) for 5.3? I just upgraded from 5.2 to 5.3 so never experienced the problems 5.3 was supposed to have(I would imagine the age of your 5.3, i.e. early release versus later release would determine if that were the problem. Just a thought... Regards, Bob So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be my hopes that they will prove useful citizens to their country and respectable members of society.=20 - John Quincy Adams. Jacob Daniel wrote: >=20 > Help me please! >=20 > I had installed SuSE 5.3 successfully a few months back and loved it. I > bought another hard drive and decided to reinstall SuSE. Only difference > from the first time was I didn't have the original floppy that SuSE sent > me. I made my own install floppies and then I ran into two problems: > 1) The menu's in afterstep were in German ! > 2) The setup of the window managers and menus (other than KDE's) was not > like my intial installation i.e the window managers and menu's etc were > nicely preconfigured in my initial install. Not so now! I would rather > start from a nice config. and customize it rather than start from scratch. >=20 > Thanks for all your help! > Jacob. >=20 > - > To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e > Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Sup= port/Doku/FAQ/> and the > archiv at h= ttp://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> --===============0646065512104133645==-- From kevinm@icl.co.za Fri Jan 29 04:34:36 1999 From: kevinm@icl.co.za To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Permission Errors from tar Archive Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 06:34:36 +0200 Message-ID: <99012906283800.01606@argon> In-Reply-To: <19990128120521.B216@BeagleDog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6157090060868048287==" --===============6157090060868048287== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, you wrote: >I just tarred my '/' partition to my /opt partition on HDD 0, removed the=20 >HDD (HDD 1) it resided on and replaced it with a new HDD 0 containing a=20 >bigger '/' space, and untarred the '/' archive to the new partition.=20 >The newly installed '/' fs booted up and runs, but not without a small=20 >problem: > >The permissions for some directories and files were not restored=20 >correctly. Problem seems to be write access for "others," where it had=20 >been set. Example: /dev/null; some files in /var/spool/mail. > >Why did this happen, or better, what should I have done during 'tar -c'=20 >or 'tar -x' to prevent it? Is this a 'umask' problem? > >Howard Arons >--=20 >Powered by SuSE Linux 5.2 -- kernel 2.0.33 >Communications by Mutt 0.93.2 >- >To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with >this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e >Check out the SuSE-FAQ at = http://www.suse.com/Supp= ort/Doku/FAQ/> and the >archiv at ht= tp://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> Hi Try the -p option in tar this should restore the same ownership and permissions Kevin - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> --===============6157090060868048287==-- From hlarons@ComCAT.COM Sat Jan 30 19:44:41 1999 From: hlarons@ComCAT.COM To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: [SuSE Linux] Further to: Permission Errors from tar Archive Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:44:41 -0500 Message-ID: <19990130144441.B270@BeagleDog> In-Reply-To: <19990128120521.B216@BeagleDog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7537585150850123095==" --===============7537585150850123095== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Jan 28, 1999, Howard Arons wrote: ... > The permissions for some directories and files were not restored=20 > correctly. Problem seems to be write access for "others," where it had=20 > been set. Example: /dev/null; some files in /var/spool/mail. >=20 > Why did this happen, or better, what should I have done during 'tar -c'=20 > or 'tar -x' to prevent it? Is this a 'umask' problem? First, sincere thanks to S Troeger and K Murphy for your responses. I=20 read the tar info, and noted the '-p' option, but never truly=20 understood it--my experiments with tar always seemed to restore the=20 permissions correctly. That was just happenstance, I guess,=20 demonstrating yet again that most the excercise I get is jumping to=20 conclusions. I'd also like to add a personal note in praise of Stefan Troeger--your=20 posts here and on other lists are always models of clarity, brevity and=20 utility. I admire and respect that. Howard Arons --=20 Powered by SuSE Linux 5.2 -- kernel 2.0.33 Communications by Mutt 0.93.2 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> --===============7537585150850123095==-- From stefan.troeger@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de Sun Jan 31 18:49:12 1999 From: stefan.troeger@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: [SuSE Linux] Re: Further to: Permission Errors from tar Archive Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:49:12 +0100 Message-ID: <19990131194912.C3798@one.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> In-Reply-To: <19990130144441.B270@BeagleDog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2874236984022248979==" --===============2874236984022248979== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 14:44 -0500, Howard Arons wrote: > > I'd also like to add a personal note in praise of Stefan Troeger--your=20 > posts here and on other lists are always models of clarity, brevity and=20 > utility. I admire and respect that. > Umm, =C3=A4hm, thanks :-) Ciao, Stefan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> --===============2874236984022248979==--