--- Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:33:04PM -0700, Jeff > Chimene wrote: > > > > --- Rajesh Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > As far as I know, if you operate on the symlink, > you > > > are operating on > > > the files/dir that it points to. Unlike hard > links, > > > which are actual > > > copies of the link pointed to. > > > And if I recall right, tar's behaviour, by > default, > > > is to over-write the > > > destination. > > > > > > tar -xzf archive.tar.gz => it's going to create > > > (overwrite) a folder 'source' and dump the > output in > > > there. > > > > Thank you for the reply! I think that I clobbered > the > > symlink - i.e. the original files are in the > original > > directory. The symlink got replaced by the actual > > directory. > > > > Is there a way for tar to follow the symlink, or > am I > > supposed to be writing into the linked directory? > > > > Cheers, > > Jeff Chimene > > > > In my test, I used -h option only for creating .tgz > file > My untar did -not- have -h option and yet the files > that > were in the .tgz file were placed by following the > symlink. > I appears that you only need -h when you are > creating. > So, this is not likely explanation of what happened > to you. > > But, again, maybe Red Hat tar behaves differently.
Hi, bash-2.05b$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. It's got something to do with following symlinks in a secure way. I found a thread that seemed to indicate that this behavior is more secure than previous symlink handling. I didn't follow the thread closely, but I think that's the gist of this class of behavior. Fortunately, I have the original files :) So, I will modify my restore process to write to the actual directory, rather than the symlink. That should yield the desired behavior. Peace, jec > > -- > Paul E Condon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
