Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:52:55 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Andy Firman <andy@firman.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership... Message-ID: <20041111155254.GB4702@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20041111154455.GA15623@akroteq.com> References: <20041111154455.GA15623@akroteq.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said: > 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? Tarfiles extracted as root preserve the original ownership of the files. You can use the -o flag to make all the extracted files owned by root. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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