On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 17:00, Christopher Russell wrote: > I am trying to copy /home/user from one RH9 machine to another RH9 > machine, using a CDR; but the files and directories lose their > permissions. How should this be done properly, please? > > WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR: > Made a user account on machine#2 in the same name as machine#1. > > Using a CDR, and syntax from RH8 Bible by Negus, p471. > > mkisofs -o /var/tmp/user.cd /home/user > cdrecord -v speed=10 dev=0,0,0 -data /var/tmp/user.cd > > WHAT HAPPENS: > On copying the files and directories into the new /home/user directory, > icons are labeled as user not having necessary permissions. e.g., > /evolution has changed from 700 to 555, /stuff has changed from 755 to > 555, and a .html file has changed from 664 to 555. > > WHAT I THINK THE PROBLEM IS: > A CD is an archive media, and so it's something in the way I made the > CD > > - but what should have been the way to do this, please? > > Thanks in advance, > Chris You should use tar to make an archive of your home directory and preserve permissions. Write the archive to CD and extract it to the second machine. -- Ed Rosack <serosack@xxxxxxxxxx>
