horst wrote: > Followup Q for kbob: your stressed the -p (preserve) option for tar. > From some man pages it sounds like the right thing to do. > From other man pages (solaris 5.8) and web links it sounds like extract > by root makes this automatically the default.
I did not know that. The GNU tar info page doesn't say that -p is the default for the superuser, but it seems to be. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
