[Zope-dev] ZFormulator review...

[Chris McDonough]

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.

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Chris McDonough
Digital Creations, Inc.
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