Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?

[Les Mikesell]

Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2008 16:53:30 Chris Adams wrote:
>>> Its not a ping issue, its an installation issue. :)   I can either chmod
>>> 4755 or capset cap_net_raw=ep  during the installation. Upstream is not
>>> involved in this.
>> How do these new bits get backed up?  I'm still working on getting
>> SELinux backed up correctly, and now this... <sigh> an admin's job is
>> never done.
> 
> Since they are stored as xattrs, tar and star should do it if you tell them to 
> get the extended attributes. Also, aide supports looking for changes in 
> xattrs if you need that, too.
> 

What about cp -a and rsync -a?  I expect either of these to give me a 
working system.

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   Les Mikesell
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