From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 9: 7:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D248E37B405 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:07:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (pc1-cmbg1-4-cust43.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [62.253.133.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249B643FE3 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:07:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18luAZ-000KpM-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:07:35 +0000 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:07:35 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wrong group on touch Message-ID: <20030220170734.GB77633@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200302201437.h1KEbAa1000536@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> <20030220150128.GC40831@devil.stderror.at> <20030220151118.GA77633@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <20030220151440.GB3285@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030220151440.GB3285@submonkey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan *18luAZ-000KpM-00*2J7luH4Cctk* (SlightlyStrange.org, Using NOD32 http://www.nod32.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:14:40PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > Really? I thought setting the sgid bit on a directory caused this > > behaviour... > > On Solaris, yes. > > On BSD, no. > New files take on the same group ownership as the directory they are in. Thanks, Ceri, I wasn't aware of that. Live and learn ;-) -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message