Re: files not setting owner for directories

[Mark Burgess]

Can someone try to find out about this? I have tried to fix this once
and have apparently misunderstood the problem. If I said I fixed it,
then I fixed something that I understood to be a problem.

M

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 15:16 +0100, Jim Wight wrote:
> Back in March I reported as follows:
> 
>         directories:
>                 /tmp/binowned           owner=bin
>         
>         files:
>                 /tmp/binowned2/         owner=bin action=create
>         
>         results in
>         
>         # ls -ld /tmp/binowned*
>         drwxr-xr-x  2 bin  root 48 Mar 18 12:16 /tmp/binowned
>         drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 48 Mar 18 12:16 /tmp/binowned2
>         
>         That was with 2.1.13.
>         
> and Mark replied saying that the bug had been found and fixed for
> 2.1.14. I haven't used 2.1.4, but I've just upgraded some machines to
> 2.1.15 and the bug is (still) present.
> 
> Now I've found another problem in the same area:
> 
>         files:
>                 /tmp/file1      owner=bin action=touch
>                 /tmp/file2      owner=bin action=touch
> 
> results (on the first run) in
> 
> # ls -l /tmp/file[0-9]
> ----------  1 bin  root 0 Aug  3 15:00 /tmp/file1
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 Aug  3 15:00 /tmp/file2
> 
> The owner of file2 is, as expected, corrected on the second run. There
> is no mention of the default mode under 'touch', but the documentation
> says that it is 0644 for 'create'; however, it gets it wrong too. Of
> course it is easy enough to get the modes right by setting them
> explicitly. 
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
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