bug#5826: [feature] chmod +S to setgid directories alike +X

Hello, I would really appreciate if chmod supported setting setgid permissions on directories (and files already having such) recursively, much like '+X' does set executable permission. To match the '+X' one, I suggest using '+S' for that. -- Best regards, Michał Górny

bug#5826: [feature] chmod +S to setgid directories alike +X

Michał Górny writes: > I would really appreciate if chmod supported setting setgid permissions > on directories (and files already having such) recursively, much like > '+X' does set executable permission. To match the '+X' one, I suggest > using '+S' for that. Since there is only a single setgi

bug#5827: [PATCH] tail: include sys/vfs.h

Hello, the latest coreutils release 8.4 and current git master fail during the (cross-) compilation of tail. The used components are: gcc-4.3.2 glibc-2.8 binutils-2.18 The following patch fixes the commit. It's against git master, but should apply on 8.4, too. Please review and consider inclusi

bug#5826: [feature] chmod +S to setgid directories alike +X

Michał Górny wrote: > I would really appreciate if chmod supported setting setgid permissions > on directories (and files already having such) recursively, much like > '+X' does set executable permission. To match the '+X' one, I suggest > using '+S' for that. I suggest using 'find' for this. And

bug#5820: user switching

lea...@aol.com wrote: > Hi, I have a copy of suse sles9 with the images provided from novell > for training. When I am logged in as a user and in Konsole, I can > not su to root, it asks for a password and will not take any input > from the keyboard. I am not familiar with SuSE but if they are si

bug#5832: Feature request: uniq -k

Please excuse the cross-post but I have been told this is the appropriate place to place a feature request. Is it possible to make a feature request for uniq to add the "-k" option to specify fields? Interestingly uniq already has such things as -f, --skip-fields=N avoid comparing t

bug#5817: "false" core util

tags 5817 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks phoenix wrote: > I've found a serious error in the program "false": If I pipe some text to it > (e.g. echo "i lost the game" | false), it does not fail but rather returns a > success. Any suggestions? As others noted the 'false' command is a builtin to m

bug#5812: expr: Difference in behavior of match and :

tags 5812 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks Adil Mujeeb wrote: > I have tried following snippet in a bash script: > > -bash-3.1$userid=`expr "uid=11008(ADILM) gid=1200(cvs),1400(build)" : > ".*uid=[0-9]*(\(.[0-9a-z]*\)) .*"` > -bash-3.1$echo $userid > ADILM > -bash-3.1$ > > To my knowledge it sh

bug#5820: user switching

Craig Leach wrote: > Hi Bob, The images provided did have passwords set up. There must > have been an issue with the initial loading of the image that > didn't become apparent until this point. I have since done a repair > install on VMWare and reinstalled the images and all is working > fine now