I didn't realize that Excel did that, but you are right. I just noticed that it is only effecting Excel files. It just so happend that the directories that I was looking at contained only Excel files, but after checking, all other file types seem to be working fine.
Thanks. "Stefano Salvi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > At 09.11 18/02/2004 -0600, Hhayes wrote: > >After saving the file, if I run a ls -l on > >the directory the file permissions on the file I opened are set to "hhayes" > >as the owner with rw permission, and the group is set to "users" with only r > >permission. I am not deleting the file and recreating it, only opening and > >then saving it. This happens no matter what user opens and saves a file. > >I know that it isn't supposed to work this way, because my other Debian box > >works correctly. > Are you shure? > As far as I know, when you save a file in Excel, the file is not > overwritten, but is copied to a temporary file, then the old file renamed > and the new file is renamed. > Stefano Salvi > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
