From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 16:11:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 934BB16A4D1 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:11:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD6543D1D for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:11:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iABGBba4085280; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:11:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:11:37 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Andy Firman Message-ID: <20041111161137.GC4702@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20041111154455.GA15623@akroteq.com> <20041111155254.GB4702@dan.emsphone.com> <20041111155812.GA16154@akroteq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041111155812.GA16154@akroteq.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:11:41 -0000 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