Hi, On 24 January 2010 pm 15:35:20 Doug Hardie wrote: > On 23 January 2010, at 22:42, John wrote: > > I just tried it with FreeBSD 7.2 creating a tar file. Digging > through the file it shows the ascii names for owner and group - > not uid/gid. I un-tar'd it on a Mac and sure enough it used > the names and the uids are quite different for the two > systems._______________________________________________
what happens if you first create the user names on the target system and then open the archive? It would be then very easy to move files accross systems. I never have had to do this. Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
