From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 02:44:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA12354 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 02:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from castor.chuck (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12295 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 02:44:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by castor.chuck (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA12464; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 05:36:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199810060936.FAA12464@castor.chuck> Subject: Re: Change Unix boxes In-Reply-To: from Steve Howe at "Oct 4, 98 00:38:49 am" To: groggy@iname.com (Steve Howe) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 05:36:35 -0400 (EDT) Cc: acampble@panama.c-com.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes X-Echelon: aerosol dispersal modalities Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: "Woodchuck" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Howe wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Armando Campble P. wrote: > > if the box you are planning to move things to does > not have the appropriate groups, then the groups > can't be created when you extract the archive. Untrue. Groups are /numbers/ (gids) not names. /etc/group just translates those numbers to names. The tar archive stores the gids Try it: # touch foo # chown 1234.4321 foo Or other uid/gids that don't exist on the system. then tar it. rm it. then extract it. do a ls -l Then make group 4321 in /etc/group, do the ls -l again. Dave -- Will hack for cabbages! Every day is Groundhog Day! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message