Re: File create permissions, what am I missing?

2005-08-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 12), Mike Meyer said: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:34:34PM -0300, Jo~ao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: In a directory with -rwxrwxrwx, any user can create files, but who should be the owner/group of this file?

Re: 5.4 -- bridging, ipfw, dot1q

2005-08-13 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:49:56AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Hi, I am afraid the existing code cannot help you. The packets you see are encapsulated in 802.1q aka VLAN frames, and since ipfw2 does not try to decapsulate the packets, you don't get to

Re: File create permissions, what am I missing?

2005-08-13 Thread João Carlos Mendes Luís
Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:34:34PM -0300, João Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: In a directory with -rwxrwxrwx, any user can create files, but who should be the owner/group of this file? Long time ago in Unix history, the owner would be the user who created the file, and the

Re: PXE Boot FreeBSD with Etherboot

2005-08-13 Thread Tim Kientzle
Norbert Koch wrote: It seems there are some problems with using pxeboot in combination with the network boot code from the etherboot project. I have tried many combinations of options with no success. The result is very Last time I looked, etherboot didn't support PXE. In any case, it

Re: perl's tie problem

2005-08-13 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:34:51PM -0700, Steve Watt wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Hi all, Consider the following except from a perl program: tie(%foodb, 'MLDBM', $BAR_FILE, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666) or die(Cannot open $BAR_FILE: $!\n); I expect it

Re: File create permissions, what am I missing?

2005-08-13 Thread Greg Black
On 2005-08-13, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Lu?s wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On BSD systems, the group of a file is always the group of the directory it is in. This differs from SysV UNIX. The resident grey-beard at work feels this is a new and annoying behavior. (i.e. it wasn't always this way.