Re: FreeBSD 5.4: 'cp -p' does not behave as documented
According to the cp man page: -p Cause cp to preserve the following attributes of each source file in the copy: modification time, access time, file flags, file mode, user ID, and group ID, as allowed by permissions. If the user ID and group ID cannot be preserved, no error message is displayed and the exit value is not altered. However, when I run this script or when I do a cp -p manually I am seeing: cp: chown: /stats/maillogs/maillog-copy-test.bz2: Permission denied You need to run this as root so the permissions and ownership all can be set. -Derek I think you misunderstand the poster's complaint. It's not that the permissions aren't being set, it's that the documentation is incorrect. This part: If the user ID and group ID cannot be preserved, no error message is displayed and the exit value is not altered. is not in accordance to the behaviour that they are seeing. The owner and/or group could not be set, but cp(1) fails, and displays a message, but the documentation says that it should not display an error message or fail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 5.4: 'cp -p' does not behave as documented
You need to run this as root so the permissions and ownership all can be set. -Derek On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Gabriel O'Brien wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 i386 We have a script in our environment that is used to back up our mail logs. In essence it does: cp -p /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 /stats/maillogs/maillog-testcopy.bz2 According to the cp man page: -p Cause cp to preserve the following attributes of each source file in the copy: modification time, access time, file flags, file mode, user ID, and group ID, as allowed by permissions. If the user ID and group ID cannot be preserved, no error message is displayed and the exit value is not altered. However, when I run this script or when I do a cp -p manually I am seeing: cp: chown: /stats/maillogs/maillog-copy-test.bz2: Permission denied For the record the user does not actually have permissions to do the chown, however we would still like to use 'cp -p' in order to preserve the remainder of the attributes and according to the docs this should be possible. Does anybody have any insight? I note this issue does not appear to exist on our FreeBSD 6.1 boxes. cheers, Gabriel O'Brien ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD 5.4: 'cp -p' does not behave as documented
Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 i386 We have a script in our environment that is used to back up our mail logs. In essence it does: cp -p /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 /stats/maillogs/maillog-testcopy.bz2 According to the cp man page: -p Cause cp to preserve the following attributes of each source file in the copy: modification time, access time, file flags, file mode, user ID, and group ID, as allowed by permissions. If the user ID and group ID cannot be preserved, no error message is displayed and the exit value is not altered. However, when I run this script or when I do a cp -p manually I am seeing: cp: chown: /stats/maillogs/maillog-copy-test.bz2: Permission denied For the record the user does not actually have permissions to do the chown, however we would still like to use 'cp -p' in order to preserve the remainder of the attributes and according to the docs this should be possible. Does anybody have any insight? I note this issue does not appear to exist on our FreeBSD 6.1 boxes. cheers, Gabriel O'Brien ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
