From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GNU emacs locks files modified with CVS Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:04:42 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FDDF7BA.3090109@yahoo.com> References: <3FDDA843.10800@tpd.tno.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071512180 29578 80.91.224.253 (15 Dec 2003 18:16:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 19:16:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVxGT-0008Sg-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:16:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVyCF-0008TB-3J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:15:59 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071511481 4830965 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119345 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15284 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15284 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