In a recent note, Thomas Dickey said: > Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:00:00 -0500 (EST) > > ok (that's a nuisance). I should have noticed it before, since it's > been using tar for some time. At one point or another I've encountered > different flavors of tar which have different options controlling whether > the original ownership should be used. Rather than get deep into that > swamp, I guess a > -chown -R root $(DOCDIR) > will be enough for now. > ... but only if the installing user has privilege to do "chown". Worse yet, I do some installs on a system on which, because of a spoor-marking contest between the admins of the server and the admins of the client, I can "give away" files with "chown", then not chown them back, delete them, not modify them subsequently.
> I've modified the configure check for 'tar' to allow other names, and was > just starting to test to ensure that I can use 'pax' and 'star' in that > place. > Of course, the command syntax for "pax" is significantly different from that of "tar". -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
