On Sat, 08 Nov 2014, John Conover wrote: > and look at the ownership of the cups directory and compare it to the > ownership in /etc.
In this example, you're not archiving etc/cups or etc, you're just archiving etc/cups/printers.conf, which means that tar must create etc/cups itself, and has no record of what the original permissions of etc/cups were. I've verified that this behaves the same way in 1.23-3 and 1.26+dfsg-0.1 as it does in 1.27-1. If you want to keep the permissions of etc/cups, then you want: sudo bash -c 'tar -C / --no-recursion -cvf xxx.tar.gz etc/cups/printers.conf etc/cups; tar -vtf xxx.tar.gz; tar -vxf xxx.tar.gz; ls -lR etc;' > for some details, where it would seem that the behavior is > acceptable-at issue is that it changed between the last versions of > Linux, and the newer. I have no idea what you mean by "last versions of Linux". The output of dpkg -l tar; or tar --version; will tell us what version(s) of tar you're using. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141108201110.gw29...@teltox.donarmstrong.com