On Apr 29, Nathan E Norman wrote > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > > > > [ description of problem ] > > > > > > I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no > > > backup system and have installed from ftp. Somebody out there must have a > > > good way to reset my ownerships. > > > > Well, the /easiest/ way might just be to copy the files in one of the > > correct manners, overwriting both them and their ownerships. For example, > > tar to stdout and pipe it to stdin of another tar with --save-permissions > > and --save-owners (done as root). > > Using the correct tools is important. David gives you one such tool - I > personally type the following command in the directory I wish to copy: > "find . -print | cpio -p /target". This is of course a simplification; > find and cpio have a lot of powerful options, and people will argue the > merits of tar vs. cpio all day. It works for me. At any rate, mc is not > up to the task. Or, since Debian has GNU cp, I simply use "cp -a". It preserves everything. (The 'a' stands for archive.) You might want this as a bug report against mc, though. If it said 'preserve' in the menu, IMHO it should preserve both files and directories's permissions. Christian
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