04-15-2002
cp -p and permissions
Hi all.
Her's what i want to do:
-> copy a file from /tmp to /usr/local/bin, and then give this file the default owner of /usr/local/bin.
My /usr/local/bin belongs to root:sys. When i detar the file mentionned, it keeps the rights it was created with.
How can i achieve what i want to do? A cp -p does not give the file the rights of the new directory...
This is something i'm doing over 400 servers..
Thanx
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