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 getting into FreeBSD. This is new to me and this
doesn't happen on any Linux flavor I have been on.

Is there any particular reason for this default on FreeBSD?
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