I've set up one machine in a lab of identical machines with Debian. I then create a tar file from that set up and transfer the tar file to CD. I then untar on the other machines. The procedure works nice (I can set up a machine in about 15 minutes) but I'm having trouble with a lot of the file permissions on the cloned machines. /tmp and /dev/null are created without write permission for groups and other. I can restore these permissions but I have no idea what other premissions aren't restored.
I untar with the -p option which is supposed to preserve permissions, but it doesn't seem to. I thought my umask might be a problem, but it doesn't seem to be. Help please. Thank you. Tony Richardson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
