Numbers Ownership after tarring
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Apr 15 03:28:00 UTC 2005
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:20:18PM +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> ok, as a test.
> [root at localhost snort]# tar --directory=/ --owner=root -xzvf
The --owner option is for *created* files -- you're extracting.
To extract, try "--no-same-owner". But also, don't get in the habit of
extracting tarballs as root unless keeping ownership and permissions is
exactly what you intend to do.
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