From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 15:45:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3913C16A4D7 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:45:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from debian.akroteq.com (rdbck-static-72.palmer.mtaonline.net [12.17.141.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C649843D2D for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:45:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@firman.us) Received: from andy by debian.akroteq.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CSH83-0004Bd-Vg for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:44:55 -0900 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:44:55 -0900 From: Andy Firman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041111154455.GA15623@akroteq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: unpacking as root gives weird ownership... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Andy Firman List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:45:05 -0000 I can't figure out why, when I unpack something like awstats-6.2.tgz it gives me this: # tar xvzf awstats-6.2.tgz # ls -al drwx------ 5 1007 513 512 Nov 6 06:03 awstats-6.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 860606 Nov 6 06:26 awstats-6.2.tgz I have used vipw to get rid of a bunch of users and am wondering if that is a problem. User 1007 does not even exist. There is a group 513. Why wouldn't it unpack with root, wheel ownership? What am I doing wrong? Andy