Re: /var Permissions

2003-03-23 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Barak Korren wrote: I've recently attempted to move my /var directory form the root filesystem to a new filesystem I created on my hardrive, unfortunately I neglected to command "cp" to preserve the files' ownerships while copying the files form the old /var directory. While most things seem to

/var Permissions

2003-03-21 Thread Barak Korren
Hellow. I've recently attempted to move my /var directory form the root filesystem to a new filesystem I created on my hardrive, unfortunately I neglected to command "cp" to preserve the files' ownerships while copying the files form the old /var directory. While most things seem to be working

Re: /var permissions ???

1999-06-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 03:49:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It looks like you should have cp -a (same as -dpR?) to preserve the ^^^ (a little ignarance goes a long way :( > permissions for the subdirectories of /var. Consider this: > > bart:~$ ls -ld /var >

Re: /var permissions ???

1999-06-13 Thread maillists
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 06:14:45PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I recently moved /var to the partition windoze used to occupy. > > To do this (after reformatting the partition): > # mkdir /vartemp > # mount /dev/hda1 -t ext2 /vartemp > # cp -R /var/* /vartemp > > I then set up /etc

/var permissions ???

1999-06-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I recently moved /var to the partition windoze used to occupy. To do this (after reformatting the partition): # mkdir /vartemp # mount /dev/hda1 -t ext2 /vartemp # cp -R /var/* /vartemp I then set up /etc/fstab to mount /dev/hda1 at /var and later wiped the original /var. It has been a lit