Hi, On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:05 -0500, Howard Arons wrote:
The permissions for some directories and files were not restored correctly. Problem seems to be write access for "others," where it had 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@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html