On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 17:10 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote: > Hi All, > > why, when either using, tar --directory=dirpath -xzvf tarfilepath or tar > -xzvf tarfilepath the owner ship is like below, > > drwxr-xr-x 7 52400 24067 4.0K Mar 4 20:24 phpMyAdmin-2.6.1-pl3 > > The downloaded files are saved in the dir, downloads, by the general > user, coolboarderguy. Cheers. Those are the UID and GID of the original directory on the system that the tarball was created on. If you extract the tarball as a regular user instead of as root, you'll own the files and directories yourself. Paul -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
