[techtalk] Preserving Permissions

[stephanie1200 at netscape.net]

You're not copying from an NFS mount, are you?  a few days ago I tried to do something similar and the permissions would not preserve, and the ownership changed to nobody.  We finally decided it was an NFS thang, since it runs as nobody.

Davida Schiff <dschiff at exobox.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a question about preserving permissions (for files). It seems like
> the -p option during a copy does not work.  Here is the scenario:
> Directory A has 4 files with the following permissions: file1=777,
> file2=666, file3=667 & file4=676. Directory B has the same (contents) 4
> files with the following permissions: file1=644,  file2=644, file3=644 &
> file4=644. If I add new contents to any of the files in directory A and use
> the following copy commands [cp -rfpv,  cp -rpv, cp -pfv, cp -pv] the files
> get overwritten (desired effect) as does the permissions (undesired effect)
> in Directory B. I thought the -p option preserved the permissions. How can I
> preserve my files original permissions scheme (in directory B)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Davida 
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