* Re: [yidong@stanford.edu: Lisp file permissions after install]
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@ 2002-02-28 18:45 ` Paul Eggert
2002-03-03 14:40 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Paul Eggert @ 2002-02-28 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
[Sorry about the delay; my mailbox overflowed.]
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:33:52 -0500
>
> The easy way to fix this is to do chown with -R. But I think that -R
> in chown is a fairly new feature--perhaps a GNU-only feature, or
> perhaps a POSIX feature--and it might not work universally.
>
> Does anyone have another suggestion?
The following command should be portable even to older hosts:
find DIR -exec chown user {} ';'
> I'm surprised that the command
>
> && (echo "Copying $${dir} to $${dest}..." ; \
> (cd $${dir}; tar -chf - . ) \
> | (cd $${dest}; umask 022; \
> tar -xvf - && cat > /dev/null) || exit 1; \
>
> does not make the new files with root as owner.
> GNU tar has an option `--same-owner' that seems to ask
> for such behavior, which would seem to imply that the
> default behavior should be something different.
>
> Eggert, can you tell us anything about this?
> Are there other tar versions which preserve the owner by default?
That's the typical behavior, when tar is invoked by root. In some
Unix implementations tar has an -o option to disable this, but -o has
a different meaning with GNU tar. So it is a bit of a portability
problem.
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