unpacking as root gives weird ownership...
Andy Firman
andy at firman.us
Thu Nov 11 15:58:19 GMT 2004
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?
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list