Date: 02 Feb 2001 20:02:04 -0500 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change group ID in a shell script Message-ID: <877l38efzn.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> In-Reply-To: <20010202160421.W91447@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> References: <87vgqteb00.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <20010202004144.A30084@dell.dannyland.org> <87r91hea7x.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <20010202005517.B307@dell.dannyland.org> <87lmrpe7kv.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <20010202160421.W91447@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
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"Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> writes: > > I solved the problem by writing a Perl script instead of a shell > > script (using Perl's `setpgrp'). I would still like to know how I > > could do that in a shell script, though. > > It does not seem like it would matter for your purposes. The group ID > of a newly created file has nothing to do with the group of the user > creating it (aside from possibly giving permissions to write the > file) on a BSD system. Ooops, you are right. Then I haven't solved the problem (I only tested the script on the Solaris side until I read your message). In this case, let me rephrase the question into two: 1. How do I change process's user group in a shell script? 2. How do I make sure files are created with a certain group ownership in a shell script? Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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