From: Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed May 03 2000 at 14:22, "David Knaack" wrote:
> > Why would some files come up with 'root', and some with just
> > the nubers? They were installed from the same archive.
>
> You have very likely got these "foreign" numbers from extracting files
> from tarballs as root user. (Although you say this is a fresh rh61
> install, strange).
Correct, am I supposed to reset the user and group after I extract
the files?
> Note that the s bit on the group permissions is set. This forces all
> (new) files in that directory to be set GUI the same as the directory
> (in this case, GID 143).
>
> > And whats with the uucp on the JDK files? Should I change
> > all that to root?
[...]
> chown -R root.root jdk1.2.2
hmm, didn't realise you could change both with that notation,
I've been using chgrp too. Thats handy :)
> Lots of man pages describe all this... ls, ln, chown, chgrp and so on.
> They are all standard unix filesystem tools.
yup, I know how to change them, what I wanted to know
was why they appeared to be 'broken'.
Thanks
DK
