RE: Tar problem

[Rino Rogomentic <rino gmx ch>]

On Thursday, 30. December
Mark Thompson wrote:

>I have brought up a Redhat 6.1 server with all of the lastest patches.  
>I am trying to migrate samba
>users from the one machine to the other.  
>I am able to move all of the user accounts with no
>problems using

>tar xvpf

>which preserves the permissions.  When I try to move the 
>shared directory on the same partition to
>the new server, the permissions for the directories 
>are not being kept.

--schnipp,schnipp--

hi mark,

try this one:

tar xvpf - <source_dir> | (cd <target_dir>; tar xvpf - )

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