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- From: ertle@kira.uvm.edu The Sneaky Devil
- Subject: Re: tar, nfs, and restricted_chown
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- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
- References: <Bz882q.L2.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1ggu1sINNp8q@guinan.cs.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:07:31 GMT
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- >In article <Bz882q.L2.2@cs.cmu.edu>, cline+@cs.cmu.edu (Kenneth Cline) writes:
- >|> A user logged into a Sun4 was unable to extract tarred files (created
- >|> by another user) to a disk mounted on our SGI machine. Apparently,
- >|> SunOs tar chowns the new file to the old user before reading its
- >|> contents, and subsequent operations fail due to ownership conflict.
- >|>
- Gnu has "gtar" that takes care of it.
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