Ok,
But if that sets all files in this directory to belong to the group who
should I be when I run makemaildir for the alias user. Should I be alias or
root?
I am planning to reinstall qmail.
Alex Miller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 11:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: alias directory owner, group, permissions
>
>
> "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >drwxr-sr-x 2 alias qmail 1024 May 19 15:16 alias/
> >here is what I have and instcheck does not complain
> >
> >So, what on earth is the "s"?
> >
> >I've never seen that permission before. I have documentation for the
> >permission defintions for 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and they are all combinations
> >of -rwx. What value could s have in an octal system if all the
> other values
> >are already mapped?
> >
> >Very confused.
>
> This isn't really a qmail question. "man chmod" should explain it. "s"
> in the group execute position means the setgid (and group execute) bit
> is set. In the case of a directory, it means files created in the
> directory will belong the the group that owns the directory, "qmail",
> in this case.
>
> -Dave
>
