GTAR Problem

[Kirk]

When performing a linked gtar as root with the flags cpBf and xpBf I noticed
that the ownership of links(but not the files, they are preserved) in the
moved directory is now root. When trying this again after a su as the user I
got all kinds of errors.
Gtar --help has an "m"(presumably for "maintain" ownership) flag but that
didn't help.
Here's an example of the syntax I use
/usr/local/bin/gtar -cpBf - directoryname |( cd
/net/newserver/export/newfilesystem/; /usr/local/bin/gtar -xpBf - )
It's a major pain in the ass to have to remake links when some users have
dozens of them.
I have root=servers set in the dfstab of both machines for these shares.
Is there something painfully simple I'm overlooking?

Any help is appreciated.

[Joerg Schilling]

In article <vip3e9l8mgjt01@corp.supernews.com>, Kirk <kirkm@ev1.net> wrote:

>When performing a linked gtar as root with the flags cpBf and xpBf I noticed
>that the ownership of links(but not the files, they are preserved) in the
>moved directory is now root. When trying this again after a su as the user I
>got all kinds of errors.
>Gtar --help has an "m"(presumably for "maintain" ownership) flag but that
>didn't help.
>Here's an example of the syntax I use
>/usr/local/bin/gtar -cpBf - directoryname |( cd
>/net/newserver/export/newfilesystem/; /usr/local/bin/gtar -xpBf - )
>It's a major pain in the ass to have to remake links when some users have
>dozens of them.
>I have root=servers set in the dfstab of both machines for these shares.
>Is there something painfully simple I'm overlooking?

Use star, it adopted to use 'lchown()' more than 10 years ago.


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