Re: How to copy and keep file permissions

2002-02-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Zentara" == Zentara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zentara> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:17:20 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Eberly) wrote: >> Hmm, I've tried this but it doesn't seem to change the file permissions at >> all on the backup file. I checked into it, and my stat command or $mode i

Re: How to copy and keep file permissions

2002-02-21 Thread zentara
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:09:59 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zentara) wrote: Ooops, made a dumb error. Corrected below. >The 33261 is file permissions and file type in decimal. >Under linux, chmod accepts this value, maybe under solaris >you have to to have the octal value? > >Try this instead: > >#

Re: How to copy and keep file permissions

2002-02-21 Thread zentara
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:17:20 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Eberly) wrote: >Hmm, I've tried this but it doesn't seem to change the file permissions at >all on the backup file. I checked into it, and my stat command or $mode in >this case is equal to 33261. Is that a normal output for the mod

Re: How to copy and keep file permissions

2002-02-20 Thread Craig Eberly
Hmm, I've tried this but it doesn't seem to change the file permissions at all on the backup file. I checked into it, and my stat command or $mode in this case is equal to 33261. Is that a normal output for the mode in the stat command? I'm on a Solaris 8 system. Thanks, Craig (Sorry if the

Re: How to copy and keep file permissions

2002-02-17 Thread zentara
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 20:23:02 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Eberly) wrote: >Hey, any help would be appreciated. >I just wanted to make a simple backup script to backup any file i >specified quickly.. and eventually let it accept options and whatnot for >directories, but right now, I'm just tryin

How to copy and keep file permissions

2002-02-16 Thread Craig Eberly
Hey, any help would be appreciated. I just wanted to make a simple backup script to backup any file i specified quickly.. and eventually let it accept options and whatnot for directories, but right now, I'm just trying to get it to keep the file permissions of the original file. I'm using File::C