On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:20:18PM +0900, Mark Sargent wrote: > ok, as a test. > [root@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. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
