From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: iainb.forms@googlemail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 04:32:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217590934 21307 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 11:42:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:42:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 01 13:43:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KOt2B-0003Cd-9Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:42:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOt1F-0000n1-Gj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:42:01 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.108.234.15 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217590351 29123 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2008 11:32:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.108.234.15; posting-account=fg40GQoAAAAbcg_X6oBFLMqLD20ppQOs User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/523 (KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/523.10) OmniWeb/v621.0.99313, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160772 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56120 Archived-At: whoami: iainb groups: iainb appserveradm appserverusr admin echo $GROUP: returned nothing - if there are ways to get env vars set within emacs, I don't know how to do that. the user "system" doesn't appear in my Netinfo database, but it is quite common to find it owning the file if using the Get Info command from the Finder (which gives more meta info, so I tend to use that instead of unix commands for ownership). It appears to be an alias used by Apple ls -al: -rw-r--r-- 1 root iainb 8 Aug 1 12:27 Dummyfile.hs Thanks for taking the time to look into this.