-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGw04SpdyWzQ5b5ckRAnoaAJ0SXpKL+ts9lKTxjFMlegj2SQiuhgCeMZ4b J8chI2vbQt1p/CTAdogdXmg= =x2Bd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----