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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:34:37 +0200
From:      Andreas Wideroe Andersen <andreas@eunet.no>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   tar: user/group= 501 & Changing symlinks owner/group
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020912202103.02799e30@pop.eunet.no>

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System: FreeBSD 4.6 STABLE

Hi,
Everytime I (root) issue a tar -xvf somefile.tar the user and group of the 
"untar'ed" files/dirs become 501:

-rwxr--r--   1 501  501    4275 May 22 16:00 show_rechis.php
-rwxr-xr-x   1 501  501    7111 May 18 12:01 status.php
-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/
-rwxr-xr-x   1 501  501    7092 May 24 15:11 tce_db.php
-rwxr-xr-x   1 501  501    6770 May 22 03:15 tce_file.php
drwxr-xr-x   3 501  501   20480 May 24 16:46 temp

How come?

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...

What can I do, except for deleting the symlinks and link them up again?

Thanks for any suggestions!

/Andreas

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Andreas Wideroe Andersen <andreas@eunet.no>
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