On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:40 +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I've just observed that on certain boxes I have (at least SuSE 9.3, SuSE 8.1
> and Ubuntu Hoary with xemacs) (x)emacs saving files as root causes those
> files to be owned by root.
>> However, on assorted Red Hat boxes wiyh emacs and xemacs, on OS-X with emacs,
> saving files as root causes those files to be owned by their original owner,
> whatever that was. This is the behaviour I'm used to with (x)emacs and is the
> behaviour I expect, but I can't find out how to force it.
What are the directory permissions? Are they stickied?
--
Aidan Delaney
Lecturer,
School of Computing, Mathematics and Information Sciences,
University of Brighton.
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