From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 8:16:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.deadbbs.com (hermes.cpetc.com [207.137.157.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D950937B9DF for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:16:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erinf@deadbbs.com) Received: from localhost (erinf@localhost) by hermes.deadbbs.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e74FHJD23385 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:17:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:17:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Kahn To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with tar. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I realize that the problems are my fault, but I still need some help. When I tar up the home directories on my server using "zcf" as my switches the file/directory ownerships are all reset to root:wheel and not the actual owner. I am untaring these on a different system and have not yet compiled the master.passwd with all of the user accounts, could that be the problem? Tar may not be seeing the user accounts active on the system so it resets the file/directory ownerships? Thanks, Erin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message