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Subject: Re: [ILUG] emacs and saving files as root
From: P () draigBrady ! com
Date: 2005-08-31 16:16:14
Message-ID: 4315D7CE.9000809 () draigBrady ! com
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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.
>
> I have asked great uncle google, and although I find numerous references to an
> emacs FAQ with a section "6.4 Editing files as ROOT" I cannot find the
> actual content, neither on the intarweb nor on any box I have handy.
root is immaterial and not worth googling.
For the record I googled for "emacs vi hardlinks" and got:
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/xemacs_17.html#SEC141
Pádraig.
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