5 May
2002
5 May
'02
00:02
On Sunday 05 May 2002 01:52, Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote:
Note that this will only occur if you do the tar extraction under the root account - a normal user does not have sufficiently privilege to set file UID/GID.
That's very true, I forgot about that. I tested this, and tar xvf still gives the original uid/gid (when run as root, that is). Hmm, odd. Still, one shouldn't run things like compilations as root anyway. Anders