Not copied, "moved". The root owned file is gone, which was the real surprise.
As a side note, I've solved it, it's happening because of an obscure groups setup that means I have group write access to the /var/cvs directory. Adam -----Original Message----- From: Brett Fenton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 5:56 PM To: Kennedy, Adam; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] Can somebody explain this effect? by default as you've moved it into ~adam, adam will own the file and the file will be in group adam. this is because you've copied it in as user adam. if you'd copied it in as root it would have maintained file permissions. brett -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kennedy, Adam Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 5:40 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [SLUG] Can somebody explain this effect? Box is Debian Potato. Note the cvs.tar.gz file ( in case it isn't obvious ). If I'm not mistaken, I've just "taken ownership" of the file from root. Am I correct? Adam adam@pear:~$ cd /var/cvs adam@pear:/var/cvs$ ls -l total 67440 drwxrwxr-x 10 cvs cvs 4096 Apr 30 13:28 APCOT drwxrwxr-x 3 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 18 13:50 CVSROOT drwxrwxr-x 2 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 12 16:29 DowJones drwxrwxr-x 6 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 FortyTwo drwxrwxr-x 5 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 MARTINTEST drwxrwxr-x 9 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 VoiceXML -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68959080 Apr 30 17:08 cvs.tar.gz adam@pear:/var/cvs$ mv cvs.tar.gz ~ adam@pear:/var/cvs$ cd ~ adam@pear:~$ ls -l total 67508 -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 68959080 Apr 30 17:08 cvs.tar.gz drwxr-sr-x 5 adam adam 4096 Apr 20 11:24 cvsroot -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 582 Feb 21 10:55 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 11316 Mar 20 16:00 ip -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 11316 Mar 20 16:07 ip2 -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 11316 Mar 20 16:18 ip3 -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 11316 Mar 20 16:19 ip4 -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 1241 Mar 20 16:20 mail -rw------- 1 adam adam 7021 Mar 13 16:03 mbox -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 14601 Mar 20 16:27 now -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 5694 Mar 20 16:34 person adam@pear:~$ cd /var/cvs adam@pear:/var/cvs$ ls -l total 24 drwxrwxr-x 10 cvs cvs 4096 Apr 30 13:28 APCOT drwxrwxr-x 3 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 18 13:50 CVSROOT drwxrwxr-x 2 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 12 16:29 DowJones drwxrwxr-x 6 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 FortyTwo drwxrwxr-x 5 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 MARTINTEST drwxrwxr-x 9 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 VoiceXML adam@pear:/var/cvs$ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
