1. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

I'm trying to make a backup of a directory tree on Solaris 8. I'm doing this with my own ID, not root. The problem I am running into is when I extract the archive, all files are owned by me and the group is my default group. The man page lists this as the default behavior when executed by a... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, While changing ownerships from the root on a server i'm managing, i typed chown -R username:users * and it changed all ownership to username. Can someone tell me if there is someway I can set things back the way they were before? I can't even su username from the root. Am I going to just... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi friends,i have a doubt,if there is a file for which i have only read access then is there any way to execute it,plz reply soon (5 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm looking for a way to create preprocessed .gz files of static pages to serve up to those browsers that can accept them. I know I can use: gzip -c --best index.html > index.html.gz to create the .gz file _and_ keep the original. What's the proper command line way to run that on each... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to copy a file from another user to my owner directory, and want to change the ownership to my account. in jung's directory: -rwxr-xr-x 1 jung smart 23 Dec 1 2005 .runme cp /home/jung/runme . under my directory: -rwxr-xr-x 1 jung smart 23 Dec 1... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how would i change ownership of file1 so the user NATE gets ownership of the file? (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, When I do the ls-ld command for example like this: # ls -ld /Applications I get an output like this: drwxrwxr-x+ 114 root admin 3876 18 Aug 14:04 /Applications I need to somehow use sed to put the ownership into a format like this: root:admin So basically remove... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I have a script which transfers files/directories from one HP unix to another HP unix server using SCP but i need to retain ownership of files/folders same as source server my script is as follows cd /sasdata/TR_CNTO328/C0328T07/Dry_Run_1/Macros find . -type d -newer . -exec scp -pr {}... (6 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to change the ownership of a directory ONLY. my id id1 owns the files under the /mypath/bin but /mypath/bin is owned by id2 If i log into id2 I can't do chown id1 /mypath/bin (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have 2 Linux servers and 1 windows server. One Linux server has an NSF share which points to the windows server. The other Linux server rsyncs any data to the other Linux server containing the windows share. My issue is that everytime the Linux administrator rsync data to the linux server... (12 Replies)