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 wheel 860606 Nov 6 06:26 awstats-6.2.tgz
>
> I have used vipw to get rid of a bunch of users and am wondering
> if that is a problem. User 1007 does not even exist.
> There is a group 513.
>
> 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.
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Dan Nelson
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