On Thursday 30 January 2003 03:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I login as 'amanda' to run 'amdump' and 'amrestore'. > The utility is GNUTAR. > The command 'amrestore -p ...| tar xvf -' works, but the owner of > restored files were changed > to 'amanda'. > How to prevent to change 'owner'? > > Thanks! > > David
Run as root should fix that, or at least, on my system, when you untar things as root, it doesn't change their ownership to root.
