Hi,

On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:05 -0500, Howard Arons wrote:

> The permissions for some directories and files were not restored 
> correctly. Problem seems to be write access for "others," where it had 
> been set. Example: /dev/null; some files in /var/spool/mail.

Just use the -p option when extracting the archive. Then tar
will restore the file permissions correctly.

Ciao,
        Stefan
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