File Attributes in /var

[KFPieper@t-online.de (Klaus Pieper)]

Hi,

After moving the /var directory to another partition using  tar cfSp - *
| ( cd /mnt && tar xfSpv - ) I got problems because exim could not write
to /var/spool/exim and /var/log/exim.

How are the correct settings?
I changed them to
drwxrwx---   5 root     mail         1024 Jun 24 06:27 /var/spool/exim/
drwxrwx---   2 root     mail         1024 Jul  4 06:47 /var/log/exim/

What's wrong with the tar copy command? I never had any problem with it.

Klaus