On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:10:28PM -0500, Rodney Green wrote:
: Marek Kilimajer wrote:
: >Rodney Green wrote:
: >>
: >>I'm writing a script that downloads a tarball from an FTP server and
: >>unpacks it into a directory. Here's the line of code that does this.
: >>
: >>exec("tar -C /scripts/ -zxv --preserve-permissions -f " .
: >>"/scripts/mailfiles.tar.gz") or die('Tar failed!');
: >>
: >>My problem is that the files' ownership is changed when the tarball
: >>is unpacked. I'm executing the script from a web browser and Apache
: >>is running as the user "apache" so the files are unpacked and
: >>ownership given to the user apache. How can I make it so the files
: >>will keep the original ownerships? This is important because the
: >>files are mail files and the script is used to restore the mail files
: >>from backup so the users can access them.
: >
: >Only root can change file ownership.
:
: Thanks for replying. Any suggestions on how to do this then?
sudo?
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