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 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.
It's been standard procedure for tar as far back as I can remember, on
all OSes.
# dpkg -l tar
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii tar 1.13.93-4 GNU tar
# touch testfile
# chown 6666:7777 testfile
# ls -l testfile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 6666 7777 0 Nov 11 10:01 testfile
# tar cvf testfile.tar testfile
testfile
# rm testfile
rm: remove regular empty file `testfile'? y
# tar xvf testfile.tar
testfile
# ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- 1 6666 7777 0 Nov 11 10:01 testfile
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