Stefan Krusche wrote:
> What is the difference between "below /usr/local"
> and "in /usr/local" for directory "/usr/local/something"?! (as referred
> to in this section of the debian policy.)
AIUI, "in" means those items that are directly within the directory, while
"below" means those items wi
Resending to list, cause I got this message privately…
a...@bastelmap.de schrieb am 25.01.2020 13:50:
> Am Samstag, 25. Januar 2020 schrieb Stefan Krusche:
> > Good day everyone,
> >
> > I observed this behaviour of "mkdir" under /usr/local/:
> >
> > $ sudo mkdir -p share/doc/subversion-book-en
>
Am Samstag, 25. Januar 2020 schrieb Florian Zieboll:
> very probably the parent directory is assigned to the "staff" group
> and has this bit set as well: It's called SGID-bit and recursively
> sets the group ID according to the directory owner instead of the
> current user - see man (1) chmod.
Ha
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:27:10 +0100
Stefan Krusche wrote:
> I observed this behaviour of "mkdir" under /usr/local/:
>
> $ sudo mkdir -p share/doc/subversion-book-en
> $ ls -l -d share/doc/subversion-book-en
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4096 Jan 25 13
Am Samstag, 25. Januar 2020 schrieb Stefan Krusche:
> Why does group get the 's' bit and becomes 'staff'? Is this normal?
> If yes, where is it documented?
Okay, I think I found it. In:
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-opersys.html#s9.1.2
the last paragraph says this:
"The /usr/local
Good day everyone,
I observed this behaviour of "mkdir" under /usr/local/:
$ sudo mkdir -p share/doc/subversion-book-en
$ ls -l -d share/doc/subversion-book-en
drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4096 Jan 25 13:10 share/doc/subversion-book-en
The same happens in a root shell. I rather expected to get this:
