Hi, a correction from my previous comment : > specailfiel is not possible while a setgid is active on the file, the setgid bit is removed by a >> command
log : $ sudo chmod g+rwxs specialfile; ls -l | grep -v total -rw-rwsr-- 1 root mygroup 0 2007-11-17 19:45 specialfile $ > specialfile; ls -l | grep -v total bash: specialfile: Operation not permitted -rw-rwsr-- 1 root mygroup 0 2007-11-17 19:45 specialfile $ cat specialfile; ls -l | grep -v total -rw-rwsr-- 1 root mygroup 0 2007-11-17 19:45 specialfile $ echo "x" >> specialfile; ls -l | grep -v total -rw-rwxr-- 1 root mygroup 2 2007-11-17 19:47 specialfile $ > specialfile; ls -l | grep -v total -rw-rwxr-- 1 root mygroup 0 2007-11-17 19:48 specialfile I don't know enough about unix permissions to know whether this is normal or not Koen -- Group permissions not working correctly in Gutsy Gibbon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
