From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:34:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217540093 22372 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2008 21:34:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: iainb.forms@googlemail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 31 23:35:43 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 1KOfo4-0006ct-V5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:35:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50575 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOfnA-0001dv-Ce for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOfml-0001a7-H4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOfmj-0001WX-Cv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48855 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOfmj-0001WB-0P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:46557) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOfmj-0000n4-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp06.web.de (fmsmtp06.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.172]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37EFE9EFD7D; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:34:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [91.35.204.157] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1KOfmg-00049t-00; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:34:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+jB52weaCP9l0Mn0YDQUdA8SpMgcdKKZ2OU7mE 5ZKIXCJhGTpdZDsRcwyrR9hbebbc4PyHIxDAEiNhhn/IEd8iZQ zxk/8gNMMAW90K78MiZA== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:56106 Archived-At: Am 31.07.2008 um 20:44 schrieb iainb.forms@googlemail.com: > I'm running Emacs on OSX 10.4 in Terminal. Every time I create a new > file using C-x C-f the owner is "system" and not my user, so the files > become read-only! Could you tell us the value of the environment variable GROUP? And =20 what is the command groups returning? -- Greetings Pete Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except =20 study for that instructor's course. =96 Fourth Law of Applied Terror