On February 21, 2006 15:45, JoeHill wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:24:57 -0700 > > Martell, Larry got an infinite number of monkeys to type out: > > >Hmmm, I did use the -r switch, but I'll check the perms. Wouldn't it > > > error out if there was a problem with the perms on the destination dir? > > > > If there was a problem with a dir, yes, but if there were permission > > problems with any individual files it would skip those but still copy the > > others. > > Yup, sure enough, the files that weren't copied are owned by root. > > Now, I'm not sure I want to use scp as root to do the file copy, then *all* > the destination files will be owned by root, no?
If you want to be sure they all get the same permissions etc., it might be easiest to use tar: cd <wherever> tar czvf files.tgz . scp files.tgz <towherever> Then on the other machine, do: cd <wherever> tar xzvf files.tgz -- Ron (ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net) Opinions expressed here are all mine ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
