[CentOS] chown and chgrp on 4.5 vs 5.0

Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob at darkover.org
Wed Aug 15 19:03:46 UTC 2007


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On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:56:45PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
>  I just noticed that on centso 4.5 I have an executable with the +s (chmod +s 
>  myexe)
>  doing a chmod root myexe and chown root myexe does NOT affect the +s 
>  setting.
> 
>  However, on centos 5 this is not the case.
>  chmod +s myexe
>  chown root myexe or chgrp root myexe
>  will DROP the +s status.
> 
>  How can I get around this?
>  I want to keep the owner, group, world settings.

I don't know, but as far as I'm concerned, the behaviour you get on CentOS 5
is the correct one, just like I used to get on AIX, Solaris and several
other UNIXs I used in the past.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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