You (Rob Browning) wrote: > Hmm, I often use newgrp when I'm about to do a set of actions where I > want to make sure all the new files get a particular group. For > example, say I'm building a package in my home directory and I want > all the files created to be group src because I'm likely to move them > to /usr/src/ later. > > Is there some other way to achieve this?
You can ofcourse make the new directory setgid (chmod g+s). All files created in that directory will have their gid set to that of the directory.. But I can see that using newgrp might be more convenient Mike. -- Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn. Smoorenburg, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cistron.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data)
