Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:19:34 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: group members can't modify files even though 775 set Message-ID: <20031224151933.GE2890@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3FE94CA0.6030605@geminix.org> References: <3FE90996.9050606@princeton.edu> <3FE94CA0.6030605@geminix.org>
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In the last episode (Dec 24), Uwe Doering said: > Seamus Abshere wrote: > >But this happens when I am logged in as sabshere: > > > >>$echo "whatev" > index.html > >>-bash: index.html: cannot overwrite existing file > > I think this has nothing to do with file permissions. Instead, the > 'noclobber' option is probably enabled in your bash settings, so the > shell refuses to overwrite existing files. Find the directive 'set -o > noclobber' in your shell's startup files and comment it out, or if this > behaviour is the default, try to override it with 'set +o noclobber'. Or use >! , which overrides noclobber for just that one time. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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