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 Posted by nigel.t on 09/08/06 11:44 
In article <edp72e$156v$3@ns.felk.cvut.cz>, stoupa@practisoft.cz says... 
> <nigel.t@by.uk> wrote in  
> news:MPG.1f6983e17848cc47989904@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk... 
> > 
> > It turns out the directory the .tar file is created in must have 777 
> > permissions ... 775 wont do it... it must have that extra bit set. 
> > 
> I'm not a Linux guru but maybe can help you to use some tar parameter. Try  
> to tell to tar thaht the temporary file must be created in /tmp dir. This  
> directory used to have 777 privileges at all. Or try to create tar file in  
> /tmp directory and after creating copy tar file to desired destination. 
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> Petr Vileta, Czech republic 
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Thanks Petr thats pretty much what I did. 
Its still a puzzle I need to understand but at least I can get it working  
now.  I just hope I dont run into problems using chmod with PHP  
through apache or that will screw me up. 
 
-nigel-
 
  
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