It would appear that on May 9, Jeff Vian did say: > In my many years of experience I have never used the numeric option, and > seldom used the -p option > > I routinely use tar -cvf (or czvf) to create the file and tar -xvf (or > xzvf) to extract it. > > AFAICT the numeric UID/GID is stored in the file from the source system, > and the numeric UID/GID is extracted with the file on the destination > system. On systems where the username/UID pair from the source does not > match the username/UID pair from the destination, the file on the > destination is owned automatically by the user with the UID of the > original file. > > I can and have tested this repeatedly and have found nothing unusual as > long as I remember that the ownership for extracted files will go to the > user with the matching UID and not necessarily to the matching username. > If there is no username that has a matching UID then the ownership > displays as the numeric UID (see my earlier post on this for an example) > > There are many options for tar that I seldom use and thus am not > familiar with. But in my experience, your results are common. YMMV Well Thank you Jeff. For most purposes I two would probably use the same options you do. Though it's only recently that I started using the z option instead of manually "gzip"ing And "gunzip"ing the tar file. But in this case I certainly wanted to preserve all permission settings Thus the -p... Your description does help me understand the process a little better. Thanks! -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>>
