Re: set owner/group on FreeBSD

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:01:50PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> It's more that the file in /tmp is created with group "wheel" which I am
> not a member of, so mv (cp -p across file systems) generates that message.

Bitch to the FreeBSD folks about their mv that prints pedantic
error messages complaining about perfectly normal cases...

I just tried it on Solaris 7 (I had to become root and manually
chgrp the file into a group I'm not a member of, then drop back
to unprivileged for the "mv" command).  The "mv" *silently* put
the file into my default group.

I wonder what POSIX has to say about this?

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