Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
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? > > > > >

Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Andy Firman
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 owne

Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
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 extra

Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Andy Firman
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 get

Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said: > I can't figure out why, when I unpack something like > awstats-6.2.tgz it gives me this: > > # tar xvzf awstats-6.2.tgz > # ls -al > drwx-- 5 1007 513 512 Nov 6 06:03 awstats-6.2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel860606 Nov 6

unpacking as root gives weird ownership...

2004-11-11 Thread Andy Firman
I can't figure out why, when I unpack something like awstats-6.2.tgz it gives me this: # tar xvzf awstats-6.2.tgz # ls -al drwx-- 5 1007 513 512 Nov 6 06:03 awstats-6.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel860606 Nov 6 06:26 awstats-6.2.tgz I have used vipw to get rid of a bunch