Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:11:37 -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: <20041111161137.GC4702@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20041111155812.GA16154@akroteq.com> References: <20041111154455.GA15623@akroteq.com> <20041111155254.GB4702@dan.emsphone.com> <20041111155812.GA16154@akroteq.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:52:55AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > 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. > > Hmm. I am Linux guy getting into FreeBSD. This is new to me and this > doesn't happen on any Linux flavor I have been on. It's been standard procedure for tar as far back as I can remember, on all OSes. # dpkg -l tar ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii tar 1.13.93-4 GNU tar # touch testfile # chown 6666:7777 testfile # ls -l testfile -rw-rw-r-- 1 6666 7777 0 Nov 11 10:01 testfile # tar cvf testfile.tar testfile testfile # rm testfile rm: remove regular empty file `testfile'? y # tar xvf testfile.tar testfile # ls -l -rw-rw-r-- 1 6666 7777 0 Nov 11 10:01 testfile -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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