From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 24 17:12:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18317 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 17:12:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18297 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 17:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA04240; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:42:06 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA16434; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:42:05 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981025104205.E28824@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:42:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Kok , freebsd Subject: tar listings (was: tape) References: <36314A35.3DF91935@sweda.com.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <36314A35.3DF91935@sweda.com.hk>; from Peter Kok on Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 11:32:06AM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 24 October 1998 at 11:32:06 +0800, Peter Kok wrote: > Hello > > i would like to know what is the meaning of > > 125 125 > > when i typed > > tar -vtf/dev/rmt1 > -rm-rw---- 125 125 355406513 Oct 24 00:28:05 1996 /install/backup.000 The same thing they mean in an ls -l listing: the user and the group. In this case, neither user nor group exist on your system, so they're shown as a number. This is relatively common on tar listings, since they come from systems with different users and groups. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message