From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system Date: 1 Aug 2008 12:01:53 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217594843 2346 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 12:47:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:47:23 +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 14:48:13 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 1KOu2h-0002u7-DX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:47:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOu1m-00077M-3y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:46:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Trace: individual.net HiZz8wVmk4N6y+pN30urkw+tVtmlcN1q7wSVsxJQ23F0V1ffCD Cancel-Lock: sha1:G6e902I0RPFLE2xMs3l/gMnM/VY= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160776 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:56124 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > You should try: > > sudo chown -R iainb:iainb ~iainb > > log off and in again. are you sure that's such a wise idea? changing ownership of literally *everything* in someone's home dir? -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)