Date: 02 Feb 2001 03:54:26 -0500 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change group ID in a shell script Message-ID: <87r91hea7x.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> In-Reply-To: <20010202004144.A30084@dell.dannyland.org> References: <87vgqteb00.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <20010202004144.A30084@dell.dannyland.org>
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dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> writes: > > I'm writing a script to be run from cron that needs to execute a > > command with effective group ID different from my login group. > > > > How would I change effective GID in a shell script? Linux has sg(1) > > command for this purpose. I couldn't find newgrp command, either. > > Are you creating a file that then has to end up in a certain group, or > something? Assuming you are in a group, you can do what you want just fine. > If you have to set the group on a file you create, you can then just chgrp. No, I chgrp is not what I want. I'm running rsync to mirror a directory over network, so rsync can potentially create a bunch of new files. I can't set sticky bit for the directory either, because its parent directory is not owned by me. -- Arcady Genkin Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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