[csw-users] /var/pkg-get permissions (was Problem installing the common package)

[Doofus]

Further to Dennis' reply o John regarding /var/pkg-get, I have a weird 
problem I can't get to the bottom of.

At home, hunky dory:

$ ls -lap /var/pkg-get
total 392
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     bin          512 Aug 24 16:38 ./
drwxr-xr-x  44 root     sys         1024 Aug  8 18:15 ../
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin          468 Mar 16  2002 admin-fullauto
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      130205 Aug 24 16:38 catalog-opt
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       56620 Aug 24 16:38 desc-disk2
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root        1024 Aug 25 17:33 downloads/



At work:

$ ls -lap /var/pkg-get
total 392
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     bin          512 Aug 24 16:38 ./
drwxr-xr-x  44 root     sys         1024 Aug  8 18:15 ../
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin          468 Mar 16  2002 admin-fullauto
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      130205 Aug 24 16:38 catalog-opt
-rw-r-----   1 root     root       56620 Aug 24 16:38 desc-disk2
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root        1024 Aug 25 17:33 downloads/


...which means a user can't `pkg-get -D`. Hardly a show-stopper but I 
have no idea why it's happening. To get the binaries to the lab I keep 
an rsync of sparc 5.8 unstable at home and weekly `tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 
.`  where "." is /disk2, and then untar it onto the same mount point on 
the work machine. Any idea what's happening here?

This procedure would me a lot more efficient if  rsync supported tape 
drives.