From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard G Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:53:29 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217601691 28072 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 14:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:41:31 +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 16:42:21 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 1KOvph-00027C-Lw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:42:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOvon-0004Ej-0T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:41:21 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX189wcKoiY8i+p/19sG+PZuk2lCiq07h0gSXYaL/p6i2HLKaTU7hi8yluHNgSR8h2T5JS0VHcxUZk4ae3NT1rLwwYuSrcKwnqnEBdcQzZmIVc+02zUeLUQToHTcGGXSumHmEttWCh1A6NA== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:53:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18d59uOGH6jbEQ/IaEDrcl+8ARzjHL+MdTbiayc7EF19g== Cancel-Lock: sha1:LyZbFO/ElD1FqKWhuWkqZN8uIEE= User-Agent: Emacs 22.2.1/No Gnus v0.11 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160785 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:56134 Archived-At: Joost Kremers writes: > Peter Dyballa wrote: >> The Haskell file in his home directory he showed did not belong to >> him. He also described that he has problems to save files. So I >> assumed that also directories might not be owned by him. >> >> BTW, what's so bad (or dangerous or capitalistic) of owning >> everything in my home directory tree? > > i don't know. but that's exactly the point. you never know what reasons > there might be for having files not owned by user in ~user. (or files not > set to the group , for that matter.) > > besides, running chown as user on a file owned by root has no > effect... It does when you use sudo doesn't it? Personally I think its a bad idea to do this recursive change unless you are totally sure you know there are no side affects.