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Old 07-21-2006
Network Losing ownership with gzip
I'm trying to sell the use of gzip instead of compress in our department. One issue I'm having (which is a showstopper) is that I lose the ownership when gzipping and gunzipping, though it's mentioned all over the web that files are supposed to keep ownership.

Example:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ms32345 staff 2847 May 01 09:14 Do_Peyton_pd_Queries.ss

gzip -9f Do_Peyton_pd_Queries.ss

-rwxrwxrwx 1 ad87398 staff 1370 May 01 09:14 Do_Peyton_pd_Queries.ss.gz

Is there something I'm missing? We need to keep ownership for auditing purposes.
# 2  
Old 07-21-2006
you just can use tar instead

Code:
tar cf ./file.tar ./file

and then gzip it
# 3  
Old 07-24-2006
The losing ownership thing is odd. What are the flags on the gzip executable? It might be setuid for some reason I cannot fathom.
# 4  
Old 07-24-2006
The permissions for the executable are:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 26 Mar 18 2004 gzip -> /usr/opt/freeware/bin/gzip

And that link's permissions are:

-rwxr-xr-x 3 root system 66303 May 27 2003 gzip
 
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