Re: permissions on /var

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:29:49AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> As for whether cp -a is The Right Thing to do, that's an occasional topic
> of extended discussion.  Some people prefer tar or other commands to handle
> that sort of thing, but some of us use cp -a and haven't had any problems
> with it.  (Although ISTR that problems are possible under certain
> circumstances...)

current versions of GNU cp seem to handle this pretty well, but *BSD
varients of cp may not or may not even have the -a switch.. 

for example the Digital UNIX (yuk) cp does not have -a or -d instead it
appears that cp -dpR or cp -a (GNU) are the same as Digital cp -pR
(where cp -pr does not dereference links)

-- 
Ethan Benson