Re: File Attributes in /var

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>]

	Subject: File Attributes in /var
	Date: Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 07:43:00AM +0200

In reply to:Klaus Pieper

Quoting Klaus Pieper(KFPieper@t-online.de):
> 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
VT1 root-Deb-Slink:~# ls -ld /var/spool/exim/
drwxr-x---   5 mail     mail         1024 Mar  4 14:57 /var/spool/exim/

root-Deb-Slink:~# ls -ld /var/log/exim
drwxr-xr-x   2 mail     mail         1024 Jul  4 12:58 /var/log/exim

HTH, YMMV, HAND

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Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>