Re: [Bug-tar] bug in tar

[Joerg Schilling]

Stephan Litterst <address@hidden> wrote:

> I found a new bug/feature of tar:
> tar changes the owner and group of the actual directory to root.root when 
> using tar as root.
> Programms which need to write to this directory could not work.

This is typical behavior of typical tar implementations...

If you like to avoid it, call:

star -xp f=archive.tar umask=022 dir-owner=root dir-group=bin  -find ! -type d 

.... use the apropriate values for umask, dir-owner and dir-group to
define the permission and owner of intermediate directories.

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

Jörg

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