Re: [Savannah-users] Permission problems with download area

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:04:31PM +0200, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     in the download area of the xforms project, for which I am
> one of the maintainers, exist a number of old files that belong
> to a user ('Debian-exim') and group ('nogroup'), which keeps me
> from modifying or deleting them (my user name is 'jtt' and I be-
> long to group 'xforms'). Since the content of these old files is
> rather outdated and thus probably confusing to vistors I would
> like to upload newer versions but can't. Can somebody tell me
> whom or where to ask for help in this case?

You can remove or rename the files even you don't own them, because
those operation depends on who owns the parent directory.

The weird owner/group must come from the system restore in June - part
of the downloads was synchronized from mirrors for bandwidth
reasons. I'm going to fix it.

-- 
Sylvain