file permissions/ownership in base40.tgz

Hi Misc'ers, I did something stupid on my 4.0 server and lost the contents of /bin. I restored by booting from the install-cd, mounting /, /usr, and /var, and running cd /root-mount; pax -rz -f /cd/4.0/i386/base40.tgz (please don't ask what the stupid thing was). I saved my /etc,

Re: file permissions/ownership in base40.tgz

Hi! On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:18:31PM +0100, Robert Urban wrote: Hi Misc'ers, I did something stupid on my 4.0 server and lost the contents of /bin. I restored by booting from the install-cd, mounting /, /usr, and /var, and running cd /root-mount; pax -rz -f /cd/4.0/i386/base40.tgz

Re: file permissions/ownership in base40.tgz

Hello Robert, I don't feel authorized to tell you that everything inside base.tgz is set correctly after untarring (must look inside install script to be 100% sure), but here's a script that I've been using lately. Note Linux' [sS] and OpenBSD's [tT]. Good that there are standards! Bill