permissions on /var

["S.P. van Noort" <vnoort@phys.uu.nl>]

Hello,

I decided to put /var on a seperate partition, and I used the command
  cp -R /var/* /tmpvar (/tmpvar the new partitiona for /var)
and then deleted /var and mounted the new partition on /var.

It was (a couple of minutes) later that I found out that everything
on the new partition has owner and group root, and it looks that also some
of the permissions have changed, although I'm not sure of that.

Can someone help me, for example by sending me a full ls -Rl of /var.

And can someone tell me what I should have done, a special flag for cp for
example.

Greetings,

Sander