11 Jul
2000
11 Jul
'00
2:54 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Chris McDonough wrote:
Which files? Know that if you untar as root, the files will be 'owned' by whoever tarred it up on our side. Untar it as a normal user. Reset the permissions of the ones you find too permissive. Then let us know so we can change the distribution.
On FreeBSD at least, this is not true. Unless you specify the 'p' (preserve) flag, untaring as root will leave all the files owned by root. I just untared the b4 source distrabution, and the file permissions all look good to me. The original poster mentioned an RPM and looking for a source release, so perhaps the problem is with the RPM. --RDM