Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ark1!nems!mimsy!mojo!djm From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: flex/tar read-only permissions problem Message-ID: <1989Oct29.061032.25286@eng.umd.edu> Date: 29 Oct 89 06:10:32 GMT Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Reply-To: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Distribution: gnu Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 15 In the flex tar file in pub/gnu on prep.ai.mit.edu, most of the files are read-only even for the owner; this causes a problem with GNU tar 1.07 (at least on my System V box; Unix tar works fine here): when a non-root user tries to extract the archives, tar creates each file with length 0 and the correct permissions, then prints an error message like the following: tar: Could not create file flex/COPYING : Permission denied Probably the flex files should have permission 644 instead of 444, but tar might also need to be fixed if the development version hasn't been yet. -- David J. MacKenzie