On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:17:42PM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: <snip> > But I'd be very surprised to > learn that for all system accounts (the ones with the nologin shells) all > had the same UIDs on Mandrake as on Fedora. So if any of them actually OWN > any files, then wouldn't MDK tar have looked up the name in MDK's passwd > and assigned UID's accordingly? In which case, I can't figure out why having > system files owned by UID's that match the MDK passwd file didn't break > anything in FC1... > > I'm NOT complaining mind you. But If I understood your explanation of > with/without --numeric-owner, then I definitely have to figure it was > pure chance I didn't mess it all up... Unless _YIKES_ maybe I simply > haven't tried to use what ever got broke yet! Now thats a scary thought. Well, I had a not very good experience unpacking under knoppix, but maybe Mandrake's /etc/passwd, /etc/group is more like fedora's. Anyway, check the installed rpms with rpm -Va (if you have the time ;)). Regards, Luciano Rocha
