Owner and group of the MODx tar.gz archive : qmailq/spamd

Forgive my lack of skills, but I uncompressed the tar.gz MODx 0.9.6 on my dedicated box with ssh (first time for me, I hardly used SSH so far) and I have some issues with ownership.

Files read as :
Owner : qmailq
Group : spamd

I was therefore unable to CHMOD directories @install until I re-assigned ownership/group... Anything I missed ?

I used the following command : [tt]tar -xvzf modx-0.9.6.tar.gz[/tt]

Are you extracting that as root? Root user always preserves tar permissions and ownership when extracting; you can use --no-same-permissions and --no-same-owner flags to prevent the extraction from preserving these things. Non-root users have these by default, reverting to current user and the current umask.

Yeah I did it as root, I know it’s bad practice I’ll do it as simple user next time good advice !

Thanks Jason