Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:45:47 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Andreas Wideroe Andersen <andreas@eunet.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar: user/group= 501 & Changing symlinks owner/group Message-ID: <20020912184547.GB42486@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020912202103.02799e30@pop.eunet.no> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020912202103.02799e30@pop.eunet.no>
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In the last episode (Sep 12), Andreas Wideroe Andersen said: > Everytime I (root) issue a tar -xvf somefile.tar the user and group > of the "untar'ed" files/dirs become 501: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 501 501 7364 May 22 03:15 status_file.php > lrwxr-xr-x 1 501 501 9 Sep 12 19:52 t3lib -> ../t3lib/ > > How come? When you extract tarfiles as root, they extract with whatever userid the creator had. > I want the user/group to be set to Ie. test:test, but a chown -R > * test:test doesn't change the owner/group of the symbolic link. I've > read in man 7 symlink where it says symbolic link owners can be > changed using lchown. I don't seem to have the command lchown... You can use "chown -h" to change the owners of symlinks. It usually doesn't matter, as the ownership of a symlink is never used afaik. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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