This is a bit offtopic: I was about to upload an init/run scripts
package when I noticed they would not work properly. The reason: the
install and mkdir programs of the GNU fileutils package on RH 6.1 do
not handle special bits properly. Consider
install -d -m2755 a
ls -ld a
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 24 04:11 a/
The problem is fixed for RH 6.2, but I see it on RH 6.1. I would just
like to ask people to give me feedback how install/mkdir behaves on
their Linux system.
So please do
install -d -m2755 a
ls -ld a
mkdir -p -m2755 b
ls -ld b
If you do not see the special bit set, please send me the output of the
above along with your system description. For example, how is Debian,
Mandrake, Corel, RH =< 6.0 ?
Thx
