Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 10:17:10 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Blake Swensen <blake@pyramus.com> Cc: Walter Brameld <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Moving Files--permissions not kept Message-ID: <38820B26.BD8853FC@3-cities.com> References: <3.0.16.20000116072748.1d4f811e@phil.pyramus.com>
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Blake Swensen wrote: > > I am trying to move/copy files from one NFS mounted volume to a local > volume. These are files owned by a variety of users but when moved the > ownership is not carried with the file. So when I move the files as root, > the ownership of the new files is changed from the original owner to root > and and mode is changed to 664. Do a man on cp and pay attention to the "-p" option. I normally use -Rp. I usually don't have symbolic links in the areas that I am copying. Kent > > The NFS server is novell with Netware NFS (hence the need to move the files). > > I have tried to tar the files first (with -p) and have tried dump as well. > Any ideas on how I can move these files and still keep the permissions? > > Peace, > Blake > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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