Re: [Zope-dev] ZFormulator review...

Thanks. Understood. This is a pretty good argument against installing Zope itself as the root user. Patrick Phalen wrote:

You're right; the manpage is hairy. But tar itself is simple.

It's probably helpful to remember that tar is, historically, a tape archiver (validated by the fact that if you don't specify the 'f filename' option, tar will assume you want to write to the first tape device). Most tape backups will be performed by root.

tar preserves the original owner if you extract as root; otherwise, files will be owned by user (you). In either case, permissions, full directory structure, and symbolic/hard links, are retained.

-- Chris McDonough Digital Creations, Inc. Zope - http://www.zope.org