On 1/10/08, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Thanks for all your help. In the end I re-installed Debian for two > reasons: I'm already familiar with it and I'm confident that the > package management system will easily install the mathematical and > statistical applications that i need, which Mandrive would not. > > However, one (at least) question remains. Before the installing I > copied /home/robin (as well as /etc, /var, and /usr/local) to my > external HD using tar as su. After install I copied them back to my > internal HD. But now all files & folders in /home/robin have root, > not robin, as owner. I've already changed back all the stuff I > created but I'm uncertain as to whether I should also change back all > the hidden flies and folders in /home/robin. I'd appreciate any > advice you could give me. > > Robin
When doing a tar -x operation, you can use -p to preserve file permissions. As for the hidden files, every file in /home/username should be owned by that user including hidden files, unless there is some out of the ordinary reason why they shouldn't be. -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
