From: Dreamcat Four Date: 2010-11-19T03:56:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Calling a bash script creates files as UID 501 ? John W Higgins wrote in post #962380: > It does appear that the tarball maybe comes from OSX where 501 is a well > known user id and therefore normally exists. I have CentOS boxes that Ah, So if the tar cmd is untaring files with the same UID as were created on original system. Thanks! That makes a ton more sense now. I believe there's flags for tar which control this. dreamcat4 dreamcat4@gmail.com -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.