Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:37:44 -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: <20041111163744.GD4702@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20041111162706.GB16306@akroteq.com> References: <20041111154455.GA15623@akroteq.com> <20041111155254.GB4702@dan.emsphone.com> <20041111155812.GA16154@akroteq.com> <20041111161137.GC4702@dan.emsphone.com> <20041111162706.GB16306@akroteq.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:11:37AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > 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. > > When I use the -o switch it still won't unpack as root:wheel. -o works for the native tar on Solaris, Tru64, and IAX. gnutar doesn't understand -o but does know about --no-same-owner. bsdtar understands both flags; I just tested it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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