Re: Weird /tmp behaviour

1999-10-28 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > That's what BSD just does - see open(2): > > > > > > When a new file is created it is given the group of the directory which > > > contains it. > > > > That's pretty weird (but quite correct). Just checked on NetBSD and found > > the

Re: Weird /tmp behaviour

1999-10-28 Thread sthaug
> > That's what BSD just does - see open(2): > > > > When a new file is created it is given the group of the directory which > > contains it. > > That's pretty weird (but quite correct). Just checked on NetBSD and found > the same. I would have expected this behaviour only if the SGID

Re: Weird /tmp behaviour

1999-10-28 Thread Graham Wheeler
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 11:06:14AM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > Hi all > > > > We've just noticed something strange here, that probably has a mundane > > explanation but we can't figure it out. On a 2.2.8 FreeBSD system, if anyone > > creates a file in /tmp,

Re: Weird /tmp behaviour

1999-10-28 Thread Harold Gutch
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 11:06:14AM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > Hi all > > We've just noticed something strange here, that probably has a mundane > explanation but we can't figure it out. On a 2.2.8 FreeBSD system, if anyone > creates a file in /tmp, the group gets set to `bin'. The SGID bit is

Weird /tmp behaviour

1999-10-28 Thread Graham Wheeler
Hi all We've just noticed something strange here, that probably has a mundane explanation but we can't figure it out. On a 2.2.8 FreeBSD system, if anyone creates a file in /tmp, the group gets set to `bin'. The SGID bit is not set, so that doesn't explain it. Does anyone know why this happens? U