On 8/12/05, Michiel Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip>
> Thanks for the help. > > rm -rf indeed worked but is not a solution to the wrong (i think at > least) file permisions. > Even without configure, make and make install, the questions pop up. > Umask is set to 022. > > Can i solve the problem of file permissions after untarring a file? > You can't fix the tarball without extracting it, fixing the permissions (as below) and then re-creating the tarfile. To "fix" the permissions, use chmod -R +w <directory>. That will add the "write" permission bit to all files in all subdirectories, and thus an rm -r will not ask before removing it. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
