From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: GNU emacs locks files modified with CVS
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:04:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FDDF7BA.3090109@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3FDDA843.10800@tpd.tno.nl
Pepijn Kenter wrote:
> When loged in as user1 type:
> su user2
> emacs file.pro # edit, exit and save the changes
> emacs file.pro # file.pro is now read only.
>
> I can not edit file.pro the second time because it is apperently locked
> by user2 (as shown in the status line? of emacs). File permissions are
> correct and the onwner of file.pro (still) is user2.
>
> After some googling I think the possible cause is that emacs is
> inconsistent in the way it handles the USER and LOGNAME variables.
> Indeed USER is set to user2 whereas LOGNAME is still user1. When I
> change LOGNAME to user2 the problem disappears.
>
> So, what to do?
If you want a login shell as user2, use `su - user2`.
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-15 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-15 12:25 GNU emacs locks files modified with CVS Pepijn Kenter
2003-12-15 18:04 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-12-16 9:44 ` Pepijn Kenter
2003-12-16 14:10 ` gebser
[not found] <mailman.138.1071587578.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-16 14:51 ` Pepijn Kenter
2003-12-16 16:26 ` gebser
2003-12-17 6:42 ` Maurizio Loreti
2003-12-17 15:34 ` gebser
[not found] <mailman.195.1071679031.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-17 16:26 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-17 19:03 ` gebser
2003-12-17 16:41 ` Pepijn Kenter
2003-12-17 17:54 ` Maurizio Loreti
2003-12-18 17:19 ` Kevin Rodgers
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