Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:20:48 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Michael Maxwell' <drwho@xnet.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: "wheel" group on tmp files? Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105983@site2s1>
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Most likely /var/tmp is owned by group "wheel". The group ownership of a directory determines the group ownership of any files created within it. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Maxwell [SMTP:drwho@xnet.com] > Sent: Saturday, June 12, 1999 1:14 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: "wheel" group on tmp files? > > I would like to know why all files in my /tmp area are being created as > group "wheel".... > > The /tmp directory is a symlink to /var/tmp. > > % groups > other operator devel > % cd /tmp ; touch foo > % ls -l foo > -rw-r--r-- 1 drwho wheel 0 Jun 12 00:09 /tmp/foo > % uname -a > FreeBSD atlas.topquark.org 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #9: Sat May 22 > 04:36:38 CDT 1999 root@atlas.topquark.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/DRWHO > i386 > > Any help would be appreciated. Also, if possible, please email me > directly > (or CC) to drwho@xnet.com, since I'm not currently subscribed to the list. > > Thanks. > > > -- > Michael Maxwell <drwho @ xnet.com> | http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ > -- Stop the illegal attacks on Serbia NOW! -- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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